Classical Antiquity and the Cinematic Imagination

Martin M. Winkler

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Martin M. Winkler, George Mason University, Virginia

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: February 2024
Print publication year:: 2024
Online ISBN:: 9781009396691
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009396691

Subjects:: Film, Classical Studies, Classical Literature, Film, Media, Mass Communication

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This book aims to enhance our appreciation of the modernity of the classical cultures and, conversely, of cinema's debt to ancient Greece and Rome. It explores filmic perspectives on the ancient verbal and visual arts and applies what is often referred to as pre-cinema and what Sergei Eisenstein called cinematism: that paintings, statues, and literature anticipate modern visual technologies. The motion of bodies depicted in static arts and the vividness of epic ecphrases point to modern features of storytelling, while Plato's Cave Allegory and Zeno's Arrow Paradox have been related to film exhibition and projection since the early days of cinema. The book additionally demonstrates the extensive influence of antiquity on an age dominated by moving-image media, as with stagings of Odysseus' arrow shot through twelve axes or depictions of the Golden Fleece. Chapters interpret numerous European and American silent and sound films and some television productions and digital videos.

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Classical Antiquity and the Cinematic Imagination
pp i-ii

Classical Antiquity and the Cinematic Imagination - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-ix

Illustrations
pp x-xiv

Preface
pp xv-xxii

I - Prolegomena
pp 1-24

Chapter 1 - Fade-In
pp 3-24

II - Progymnasmata: Ways of Seeing
pp 25-120

Chapter 2 - Douris’ Jason: Reckless Interpretations and the Ongoing Moment
pp 27-71

Chapter 3 - Classical Cinematism
pp 72-120

III - Complex Cinematism
pp 121-344

Chapter 4 - Motion Images in Ecphrases
pp 123-155

Chapter 5 - Shadows and Caves: The Cinema as Platonic Idea and Reality
pp 156-214

Chapter 6 - Static Flight: Zeno’s Arrow and Cinematographic Motion
pp 215-232

Chapter 7 - Lucretius: Dream Images and Beyond the Infinite
pp 233-266

Chapter 8 - The Cinematic Nature of the Opening Scene in Heliodorus’ An Ethiopian Story
pp 267-294

Chapter 9 - The Face of Tragedy: Mask and Close-Up
pp 295-344

IV - The Cinema Imagines Difficult Texts
pp 345-456

Chapter 10 - Apollonius and the Golden Fleece; or, The Case of the Missing Ecphrasis
pp 347-376

Chapter 11 - Arrow and Axes in the Odyssey; or, The Case of the Insoluble Enigma
pp 377-429

Chapter 12 - Peckinpah’s Aristotle; or, How Well Does The Wild Bunch Fit The Poetics?
pp 430-456

V - Epilegomena
pp 457-466

Chapter 13 - Fade-Out
pp 459-466

Bibliography
pp 467-523

Index
pp 524-530

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