{"product_id":"ovid-on-screen-a-montage-of-attractions-paperback-softback-9781108706957","title":"Ovid on Screen; A Montage of Attractions (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108706957","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOvid on Screen\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Montage of Attractions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe first study of Ovid, especially his Metamorphoses, as inherently visual literature, explaining his pervasive importance in our visual 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\"\u003e9781108706957, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 June 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e466 pages, 47 b\/w illus.  28 colour illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.1 x 2.6 cm, 0.73 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… detailed, meticulously-researched, highly readable and erudite …' Jo-Marie Claassen, Anabases\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book presents the first systematic appreciation of Ovid's extensive influence on, and affinity with, modern visual culture. Some topics are directly related to Ovid; others exhibit features, characters, or themes analogous to those in his works. The book demonstrates the wide-ranging ramifications that Ovidian archetypes, especially from the Metamorphoses, have provoked in a modern artistic medium that did not exist in Ovid's time. It ranges from the earliest days of film history (Georges Méliès's discovery of screen metamorphosis) and theory (Gabriele D'Annunzio's fascination with the metamorphosis of Daphne; Sergei Eisenstein's concept of film sense) through silent films, classic sound films, commercial cinema, art-house and independent films to modernism and the C.G.I. era. Films by well-known directors, including Ingmar Bergman, Walerian Borowczyk, Jean Cocteau, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Fritz Lang, Max Ophüls, Alain Resnais, and various others, are analyzed in detail.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Fade-in: Prooemium\u003cbr\u003e Adages\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Theory and Practice: 1. Cinemetamorphosis\u003cbr\u003e 2. Ovid's film sense and beyond\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Key Moments in Ovidian Film History: 3. D'Annunzio's Ovid and the cinematic impulse\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Labyrinth: narrative complexity, deadly mazes, and Ovid's modernity\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Into New Bodies: 5. Effects and essences\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Beast in Man: not Ovid's, but how Ovidian!\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Love, Seduction, Death: 7. Varieties of modernism: Orpheus and Eurydice\u003cbr\u003e 8. Love and death\u003cbr\u003e 9. Lessons in seduction\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Eternal Returns: 10. Immortality: philosophy, cinema, Ovid\u003cbr\u003e 11. Ovidian returns\u003cbr\u003e Sphragis: end credits\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\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], Literary studies: classical, early \u0026amp; medieval [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: classical, early \u0026amp; medieval\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20classical,%20early%20\u0026amp;%20medieval%20%5BDSBB%5D%22\"\u003eDSBB\u003c\/a\u003e], Films, cinema [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Films, cinema\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Films,%20cinema%20%5BAPF%5D%22\"\u003eAPF\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":52415688212760,"sku":"9781108706957","price":26.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781108706957i.jpg?v=1784423446","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/ovid-on-screen-a-montage-of-attractions-paperback-softback-9781108706957","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}