Screening the golden ages of the classical tradition / edited by Meredith E. Safran.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This collection of fourteen essays explores how the dominant media of our time - film and television - have engaged with the golden age as formulated in the Western classical tradition.

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Frontmatter -- Index -- Series Editors' Preface -- Editor's Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Searching for Gold in an Age of Iron -- PART I The Glory That Was Greece -- 1 Re-(en)gendering Heroism: Reflective Nostalgia for Peplum's Golden Age of Heroes in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys 2.14 (1996) -- 2 Kissed by the Muse of Roller-Disco: Utopia versus the Golden Ages of America, Hollywood, and Classical Myth in Xanadu (1980) -- 3 Gilding American History through Song Culture in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) -- 4 A Leonidas for the Golden Age of Superhero Films: The Thermopylae Tradition in 300 (2006) -- 5 The Dueling Greek Golden Ages of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014) -- 6 Confronting the Ancient Greek Golden Age in Jules Dassin's Phaedra (1962) -- 7 Pericles, Cincinnatus, and Zombies: Classicizing Nostalgia in The Walking Dead (2010-) -- PART II The Grandeur That Was Rome -- 8 "All That Glitters . . .": Problematizing Golden-Age Narratives in Vergil's Aeneid and the Western Film Genre -- 9 The Golden Age and Imperial Dominance in the Aeneid and Serenity (2005) -- 10 Turning Gold into Lead: Sexual Pathology and the De-mythologizing of Augustus in HBO's Rome (2005-2007) -- 11 The Dux Femina Ends Westeros' Golden Age: Cersei Lannister as Agrippina the Younger in HBO's Game of Thrones (2011-) -- 12 The Golden Aspects of Roman Imperialism in Film, 1914-2015 -- 13 Broken Eagles: The Iron Age of Imperial Roman Warfare in Post-9/11 Film -- 14 Dreaming of Rome with Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000) -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index

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