Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Cinemyths: classical myth on screen / Meredith E. Safran and Monica S. Cyrino -- Part 1. -- The hero's struggle -- "Italian Stallion" meets "Breaker of Horses": Achilles and Hector in Rocky IV (1985) / Lisl Walsh -- The isolated hero: Papillon (1973), Cast away (2000), and the Myth of Philoctetes / Scott A. Barnard -- The limits of human knowledge: Oedipal problems in A serious man (2009) / Osman Umurhan -- Orpheus in a gray flannel suit: George Nolfi's The adjustment bureau (2011) / Seán Easton -- Part 2. -- Fashioning the feminine -- Dystopian Amazons: fantasies of patriarchy in Le Gladiatrici (1963) / Antony Augoustakis -- Arya, Katniss, and Merida: empowering girls through the Amazonian archetype / Beverly J. Graf -- The suspense thriller's Pygmalion complex: masculine desire in Vertigo (1958), Les Biches (1968), and Body double (1984) / Kaelie Thompson -- Plastic surgery: failed Pygmalions and decomposing women in Les yeux sans visage (1960) and Bride of re-animator (1989) / Hunter H. Gardner -- Part 3. -- Negotiating the cosmic divide -- Savior of the working man: Promethean allusions in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927) / Alex McAuley -- Magic, music, race: screening "Black enchantment" after Black Orpheus (1959) / Monica S. Cyrino -- Re-conceiving Hercules: divine paternity and Christian Anxiety in Hercules (2005) / Meredith E. Safran -- The twilight of Olympus: deicide and the end of the Greek gods / Vincent Tomasso -- Part 4. -- Cinemyth-making -- Of marketing and men: making the cinematic Greek hero, 2010-2014 / Stacie Raucci -- John Cameron Mitchell's aristophanic cinema: Hedwig and the angry inch (2001) / Lorenzo F. Garcia Jr. -- Dionysus comes to Gotham: forces of disorder in The Dark Knight (2008) / David Bullen -- Hypatia and Brian: early Christianity as Greek mythological drama / Anise K. Strong -- Divine animation: Clash of the Titans (1981) / Dan Curley.
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