Martin M Winkler
Biographic Data
| ID | 541085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin M Winkler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin M |
| FAMILY NAME | Winkler |
| SIGNATURE | WINKLER M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Classical Antiquity and the Cinematic Imagination
Ancient Greek Epic and the Cinema: Transformations and Archetypes
This chapter considers the formations and transformations of Greek epic in the cinema. The cinema has been fundamentally heroic and epic in both subject matter (the mythic past) and elevated visual style since its birth in 1895. Rather than resurvey this prominence of epic themes in the history of film, Winkler demonstrates their power through a reading of the cinema’s own epic genre par excellence – the Western. The chapter first shows how the A…
Dean Hammer. Rome and America: Communities of Strangers, Spectacles of Belonging
Roman Legends Brought to Life
The early history of ancient Rome is a fascinating mixture of fact and fiction. The Romans traced their legendary ancestry back to Troy, ultimately even to Mt. Olympus. The Trojan hero Aeneas, son of Venus and grandson of Jupiter, became the ancestor of the Romans; Romulus, another grandson of Jupiter, founded the city of Rome. In the 22 short chapters of his new book, Robert Garland retells a number of famous episodes in the Romans’ mythic-legen…
Ovid on Screen: A Montage of Attractions
Nero in Hollywood
Arminius the Liberator: Myth and Ideology
Nazi Ideology and Tacitus's Dangerous Book: Eugen Fehrle's Editions of the Germania
Tacitus's Germania has played an influential part in German cultural history since the sixteenth century, primarily in political ideology rather than in historical or classical scholarship. The twentieth-century editions of the work by the classicist and ethnologist (Volkskundler) Eugen Fehrle are particularly revealing as a case of ideological appropriation of Tacitus in Nazi Germany. Fehrle's first version (1929) presaged what was to come in th…
Origins of Myth
This chapter demonstrates that the process of historical mythmaking about Arminius began as early as in Augustan Rome. Ancient historians and poets interpreted the scanty facts concerning Varus’ defeat to present a coherent and meaningful picture. This process began with Tacitus, who called Arminius “doubtless the liberator of Germany.” Modern German historians, e.g. Theodor Mommsen, continued the tradition until a strictly fact-based approach, c…
Introduction: Troy Revisited
Return to Troy: New Essays on the Hollywood Epic
Return to Troy presents essays by American and European classical scholars on the Director’s Cut of Troy, a Hollywood film inspired by Homer’s Iliad. The book addresses major topics that are important for any twenty-first century representation of ancient Greek myth and literature in the visual media, not only in regard to Troy: the portrayals of gods, heroes, and women; director Wolfgang Petersen’s epic technique; anachronisms and supposed mista…
Aristophanes in the Cinema; or, The Metamorphoses of Lysistrata
Juvenal: Zealous Vindicator of Roman Liberty
Evidence in the poems indicates that Juvenal wrote and published his sixteen satires, divided into five books. A satirist who tirelessly attacks vice and folly and runs afoul of powerful monarch who was then and is still today considered despot can turn into an inspiring symbol of the perils inherent in the exercise of free speech in an unfree society. So Juvenal became, in Dryden's phrase, a Zealous Vindicator of Roman Liberty. Juvenal and Tacit…
The Fall of the Roman Empire: Film and History
Cinema and Classical Texts: Apollo's New Light
Spartacus: Film and History
"Stanley Kubrick's epic film Spartacus has enjoyed iconic status in cinema history and strongly influenced modern perspectives on ancient Rome. This book examines the film from different historical, political, and cinematic perspectives. This book examines the film from different historical, political, and cinematic perspectives. The chief ancient sources on the slave revolt led by Spartacus are included in translation. Contributors explore the f…
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology
Professor Roger Woodard brings together a group of the world's most authoritative scholars of classical myth to present a thorough treatment of all aspects of Greek mythology. Sixteen original articles guide the reader through all aspects of the ancient mythic tradition and its influence around the world and in later years. The articles examine the forms and uses of myth in Greek oral and written literature, from the epic poetry of 8th century BC…
Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema
Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema is a collection of essays presenting a variety of approaches to films set in Ancient Greece and Rome and to films that reflect archetypal features of classical literature. The book illustrates the continuing presence of antiquity in the most varied and influential medium of modern popular culture. The diversity of content and theoretical stances found in Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema will make t…
Das Satirische in Juvenals Satiren
In der 1968 gegrundeten Reihe erscheinen Monographien aus den Gebieten der Griechischen und Lateinischen Philologie sowie der Alten Geschichte. Die Bande weisen eine grosse Vielzahl von Themen auf: neben sprachlichen, textkritischen oder gattungsgeschichtlichen philologischen Untersuchungen stehen sozial-, politik-, finanz- und kulturgeschichtliche Arbeiten aus der Klassischen Antike und der Spatantike. Entscheidend fur die Aufnahme ist die Quali…
Classical myth & culture in the cinema
Classics and Cinema
Satire and the Grotesque in Juvenal, Arcimboldo, and Goya
Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema
Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema is a collection of essays presenting a variety of approaches to films set in Ancient Greece and Rome and to films that reflect archetypal features of classical literature. The book illustrates the continuing presence of antiquity in the most varied and influential medium of modern popular culture. The diversity of content and theoretical stances found in Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema will make t…
Return to Troy: New Essays on the Hollywood Epic
Return to Troy presents essays by American and European classical scholars on the Director’s Cut of Troy, a Hollywood film inspired by Homer’s Iliad. The book addresses major topics that are important for any twenty-first century representation of ancient Greek myth and literature in the visual media, not only in regard to Troy: the portrayals of gods, heroes, and women; director Wolfgang Petersen’s epic technique; anachronisms and supposed mista…
Satire and the Grotesque in Juvenal, Arcimboldo, and Goya
Classics and Cinema
Classical myth & culture in the cinema
Das Satirische in Juvenals Satiren
In der 1968 gegrundeten Reihe erscheinen Monographien aus den Gebieten der Griechischen und Lateinischen Philologie sowie der Alten Geschichte. Die Bande weisen eine grosse Vielzahl von Themen auf: neben sprachlichen, textkritischen oder gattungsgeschichtlichen philologischen Untersuchungen stehen sozial-, politik-, finanz- und kulturgeschichtliche Arbeiten aus der Klassischen Antike und der Spatantike. Entscheidend fur die Aufnahme ist die Quali…
Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema
Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema is a collection of essays presenting a variety of approaches to films set in Ancient Greece and Rome and to films that reflect archetypal features of classical literature. The book illustrates the continuing presence of antiquity in the most varied and influential medium of modern popular culture. The diversity of content and theoretical stances found in Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema will make t…
Spartacus: Film and History
"Stanley Kubrick's epic film Spartacus has enjoyed iconic status in cinema history and strongly influenced modern perspectives on ancient Rome. This book examines the film from different historical, political, and cinematic perspectives. This book examines the film from different historical, political, and cinematic perspectives. The chief ancient sources on the slave revolt led by Spartacus are included in translation. Contributors explore the f…
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology
Professor Roger Woodard brings together a group of the world's most authoritative scholars of classical myth to present a thorough treatment of all aspects of Greek mythology. Sixteen original articles guide the reader through all aspects of the ancient mythic tradition and its influence around the world and in later years. The articles examine the forms and uses of myth in Greek oral and written literature, from the epic poetry of 8th century BC…
Juvenal: Zealous Vindicator of Roman Liberty
Evidence in the poems indicates that Juvenal wrote and published his sixteen satires, divided into five books. A satirist who tirelessly attacks vice and folly and runs afoul of powerful monarch who was then and is still today considered despot can turn into an inspiring symbol of the perils inherent in the exercise of free speech in an unfree society. So Juvenal became, in Dryden's phrase, a Zealous Vindicator of Roman Liberty. Juvenal and Tacit…
The Fall of the Roman Empire: Film and History
Cinema and Classical Texts: Apollo's New Light
Aristophanes in the Cinema; or, The Metamorphoses of Lysistrata
Origins of Myth
This chapter demonstrates that the process of historical mythmaking about Arminius began as early as in Augustan Rome. Ancient historians and poets interpreted the scanty facts concerning Varus’ defeat to present a coherent and meaningful picture. This process began with Tacitus, who called Arminius “doubtless the liberator of Germany.” Modern German historians, e.g. Theodor Mommsen, continued the tradition until a strictly fact-based approach, c…
Introduction: Troy Revisited
Return to Troy: New Essays on the Hollywood Epic
Return to Troy presents essays by American and European classical scholars on the Director’s Cut of Troy, a Hollywood film inspired by Homer’s Iliad. The book addresses major topics that are important for any twenty-first century representation of ancient Greek myth and literature in the visual media, not only in regard to Troy: the portrayals of gods, heroes, and women; director Wolfgang Petersen’s epic technique; anachronisms and supposed mista…
Arminius the Liberator: Myth and Ideology
Nazi Ideology and Tacitus's Dangerous Book: Eugen Fehrle's Editions of the Germania
Tacitus's Germania has played an influential part in German cultural history since the sixteenth century, primarily in political ideology rather than in historical or classical scholarship. The twentieth-century editions of the work by the classicist and ethnologist (Volkskundler) Eugen Fehrle are particularly revealing as a case of ideological appropriation of Tacitus in Nazi Germany. Fehrle's first version (1929) presaged what was to come in th…
Nero in Hollywood
Ovid on Screen: A Montage of Attractions
Roman Legends Brought to Life
The early history of ancient Rome is a fascinating mixture of fact and fiction. The Romans traced their legendary ancestry back to Troy, ultimately even to Mt. Olympus. The Trojan hero Aeneas, son of Venus and grandson of Jupiter, became the ancestor of the Romans; Romulus, another grandson of Jupiter, founded the city of Rome. In the 22 short chapters of his new book, Robert Garland retells a number of famous episodes in the Romans’ mythic-legen…
Classical Antiquity and the Cinematic Imagination
Ancient Greek Epic and the Cinema: Transformations and Archetypes
This chapter considers the formations and transformations of Greek epic in the cinema. The cinema has been fundamentally heroic and epic in both subject matter (the mythic past) and elevated visual style since its birth in 1895. Rather than resurvey this prominence of epic themes in the history of film, Winkler demonstrates their power through a reading of the cinema’s own epic genre par excellence – the Western. The chapter first shows how the A…
Dean Hammer. Rome and America: Communities of Strangers, Spectacles of Belonging
Art (18 works) · Literature (15 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (14 works) · History (12 works) · Art history (10 works) · Movie theater (8 works) · Mythology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (7 works) · Classics (6 works)