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Examines representations of ancient epic and epic conventions in film and television
Demonstrates how adaptation and revision of ancient epic conventions facilitate the articulation of emerging ideals concerning gender, class, race, and nationality
Analyses recently emerging screen technologies exploring how these technologies have facilitated the capacity of recent films and television to augment the spatiality, distance, and ontological scope identified as crucial components of the epic genre
Explores how the conventions of epic have informed televisual production as the medium enters its platinum" age of production and distribution
Responds to recent work on the epic genre that has gestured toward speculative fiction as a site for the reception and development of generic conventions characteristic of ancient epic
How do epic tropes shape representations of the ancient world and determine contemporary understandings of historical events? What features of ancient epic persistently emerge in science fiction and fantasy narratives adapted to the screen, and why? How does the different scope of televisual versus cinematic media impact the representation of conventions derived from ancient epic?
The international range of contributors to this volume respond to these questions by looking for features of epic outside the traditional realm of Greco-Roman antiquity, including historical films and series, fantasy, science fiction and documentary. By identifying epic conventions on the large and small screen, as well as within a range of speculative fictions in fantastical and futuristic settings, they consider the function of such conventions within their twenty-first-century production contexts.
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Contents
Introduction: The past and future of ancient epic - Amanda Potter and Hunter Gardner
Part I: Surge and splendour: Ancient epic conventions on the silver screen
1. Spatial projections in ancient and screen epic: A view with (a) room - Dan Curley
2. Allusions to Homeric epic in contemporary films, 1984-2019 - Jon Solomon
3. "Mighty saga of the world's mightiest man": Is there such a thing as a modern Hercules epic? - Emma Stafford
4. Vergilian echoes of horror in Snowpiercer (2013): Engine and empire without end - Jennifer Rea
5. A Roman Epic in Modern Japan Screening Rome as Empire Nostalgia in Takeuchi Hideki's Thermae Romae (2012) - Monica Cyrino
6. Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth: Helen of Troy and the Trojan Horse - Kirsten Day
Part. II: From gold to platinum: Epic conventions on the small screen
7. Revival of mythic epics or epic failure? - On gods and heroes in the television shows Olympus (2015) and Troy: Fall of a City (2018) - Sylvie Magerstädt
8. Travels with Odysseus and the Odyssey in twenty-first-century television documentaries - Fiona Hobden
9. Many (un) happy Returns in HBO's Game of Thrones (2011 - 2019) - Hunter Gardner
10. The Performance of War: Battle as Spectacle in the Iliad and Into the Badlands (2015 - 2019) - Jo Wynell-Mayow
11. Homeric Intimacy in NBC's Hannibal (2013 - 2015) - Lyn Kozak
12. The gods in epic television: The Homeric cosmos in Battlestar Galactica (2003-2009) - Meredith Safran
13. Towards a Definition of Twenty-First Century Epic: Audience Responses to Game of Thrones (2011 - 2019) and His Dark Materials (2019 - ) as Epic Television - Amanda Potter
Afterword - Joanna Paul
