Ovid on Screen

A Montage of Attractions

Datos Bibliográficos

ID24185006
AutoresMartin M Winkler (George Mason University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Fecha de publicación2020-01-31
Open AccessSí
TipoBOOK
RevistaOvid on Screen (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781108756891
ISBN9781108756891
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas278

This 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.

Archetype · Art · Art history · Literature · Modernism (music) · Movie theater · Cinema and Media Studies · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Visual Culture and Art Theory