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Classical Myth on Screen

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 “Italian Stallion” Meets “Breaker of Horses”: Achilles and Hector in Rocky IV (1985)
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    Chapter 3 The Isolated Hero: Papillon (1973), Cast Away (2000), and the Myth of Philoctetes
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    Chapter 4 The Limits of Human Knowledge: Oedipal Problems in A Serious Man (2009)
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    Chapter 5 Orpheus in a Gray Flannel Suit: George Nolfi’s The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
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    Chapter 6 Dystopian Amazons: Fantasies of Patriarchy in Le Gladiatrici (1963)
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    Chapter 7 Arya, Katniss, and Merida: Empowering Girls through the Amazonian Archetype
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    Chapter 8 The Suspense-Thriller’s Pygmalion Complex: Masculine Desire in Vertigo (1958), Les Biches (1968), and Body Double (1984)
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    Chapter 9 Plastic Surgery: Failed Pygmalions and Decomposing Women in Les Yeux sans Visage (1960) and Bride of Re-Animator (1989)
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    Chapter 10 Savior of the Working Man: Promethean Allusions in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927)
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    Chapter 11 Magic, Music, Race: Screening “Black Enchantment” after Black Orpheus (1959)
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    Chapter 12 Re-conceiving Hercules: Divine Paternity and Christian Anxiety in Hercules (2005)
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    Chapter 13 The Twilight of Olympus: Deicide and the End of the Greek Gods
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    Chapter 14 Of Marketing and Men: Making the Cinematic Greek Hero, 2010–2014
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    Chapter 15 John Cameron Mitchell’s Aristophanic Cinema: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
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    Chapter 16 Dionysus Comes to Gotham: Forces of Disorder in The Dark Knight (2008)
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    Chapter 17 Hypatia and Brian: Early Christianity as Greek Mythological Drama
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    Chapter 18 Divine Animation: Clash of the Titans (1981)
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Chapter title
“Italian Stallion” Meets “Breaker of Horses”: Achilles and Hector in Rocky IV (1985)
Chapter number 2
Book title
Classical Myth on Screen
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan, New York, January 2015
DOI 10.1057/9781137486035_2
Book ISBNs
978-1-349-50480-0, 978-1-137-48603-5
Authors

Lisl Walsh, Walsh, Lisl

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