{"product_id":"classical-antiquity-and-the-cinematic-imagination-hardback-9781009396714","title":"Classical Antiquity and the Cinematic Imagination (Hardback) 9781009396714","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eClassical Antiquity and the Cinematic Imagination\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe first systematic study of classical literature and arts to explain their close affinities with modern visual technologies and media.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMartin M. Winkler (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009396714, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 February 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e554 pages, 27 b\/w illus.  81 colour illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16.1 x 3.7 cm, 0.94 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Prolegomena Leptomerestera: 1. Fade-in\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Progymnasmata – Ways of Seeing: 2. Douris' Jason: reckless interpretations and the ongoing moment\u003cbr\u003e 3. Classical cinematism\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Complex Cinematism: 4. Motion images in ecphrases\u003cbr\u003e 5. Shadows and caves: the cinema as Platonic idea and reality\u003cbr\u003e 6. Static flight: Zeno's arrow and cinematographic motion\u003cbr\u003e 7. Lucretius: dream images and beyond the infinite\u003cbr\u003e 8. The cinematic nature of the opening scene in Heliodorus' An Ethiopian Story\u003cbr\u003e 9. The face of tragedy: mask and close-up\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Cinema Imagines Difficult Texts\u003cbr\u003e 10. Apollonius and the golden fleece\u003cbr\u003e Or, the case of the missing ecphrasis\u003cbr\u003e 11. Arrow and axes in the Odyssey\u003cbr\u003e Or, the case of the insoluble enigma\u003cbr\u003e 12. Peckinpah's Aristotle\u003cbr\u003e Or, how well does The Wild Bunch fit The Poetics? Part V. Epilegomena Syntomôtera: 13. Fade-out.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Classical history \/ classical civilisation [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Classical history \/ classical civilisation\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Classical%20history%20\/%20classical%20civilisation%20%5BHBLA1%5D%22\"\u003eHBLA1\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52413998694680,"sku":"9781009396714","price":96.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009396714i.jpg?v=1784334813","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/classical-antiquity-and-the-cinematic-imagination-hardback-9781009396714","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}