Author: Winkler, Martin M.; editor:
Title: Classical Myth & Culture in the Cinema
Description: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001. orig.boards. 24x16cm, ix, 350 pp. A large (1/2 cm) dent to bottom rear cover edge. VG. ¶ Contains 15 papers. Includes: E.B. Holtsmark "The Katabasis Theme in Modern Cinema"; H.M. Roisman "Verbal Odysseus: Narrative Strategy in the Odyssey & in 'The Usual Suspects'; M. McDonald & M.M. Winkler "Michael Cacoyannis & Irene Papas on Greek Tragedy"; M. McDonald "Eye of the Camera,Eye of the Victim: 'Iphigenia' by Euripides & Cacoyannis"; M. Cacoyannis " 'Iphigenia': A Visual Essay"; M.M. Winkler "Tragic Features in John Ford' s 'The Searchers'"; M.K. Gamel "An American Tragedy: 'Chinatown'"; J.R. Baron "Tricksters & Typists: '9 to 5' as Aristophanic Comedy"; J.K. Newman "Ancient Poetics & Eisenstein's Films"; F. Mench "Film Sense in the ' Aeneid'"; J.F. Siegel "Peter Greenway's 'The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover': A Cockney Procne"; J.P. Sullivan "The Social Ambience of Petronius's 'Satyricon' and 'Fellini Satyricon'"; M.M. Winkler "'Star Wars'and the Roman Empire"; P.W. Rose "Teaching Classical Myth & Confronting Contemporary Myths"; J. Solomon The Sounds of Cinematic Antiquity".

Keywords: Film Criticism, Cinema, Classical Myth, Greek Tragedy, Comedy, Critical, Literature, Literary, Drama