Helen of Troy in Hollywood (eBook)

Ruby Blondell (Autor)

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2023
352 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22964-5 (ISBN)

Infos

How a legendary woman from classical antiquity has come to embody the threat of transcendent beauty in movies and TVHelen of Troy in Hollywood examines the figure of the mythic Helen in film and television, showing how storytellers from different Hollywood eras have used Helen to grapple with the problems and dynamics of gender and idealized femininity. Paying careful attention to how the image of Helen is embodied by the actors who have portrayed her, Ruby Blondell provides close readings of such works as Wolfgang Petersen's Troy and the Star Trek episode ';Elaan of Troyius,' going beyond contextualization to lead the reader through a fundamental rethinking of how we understand and interpret the classic tradition.A luminous work of scholarship by one of today's leading classicists, Helen of Troy in Hollywood highlights the importance of ancient myths not as timeless stories frozen in the past but as lenses through which to view our own artistic, cultural, and political moment in a new light. This incisive book demonstrates how, whether as the hero of these screen adaptations or as a peripheral character in male-dominated adventures, the mythic Helen has become symbolic of the perceived dangers of superhuman beauty and transgressive erotic agency.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.8.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Martin Classical Lectures
• Reihe/Serie: Martin Classical Lectures
• Zusatzinfo: 8 page color insert. 50 b/w illus. 1 table.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Achilles and Patroclus • Acting • Advertising • Alien Invasion • amber heard • american girl • American Pop • Ancient Greece • Ancient Greek art • Animation • Anita Loos • Ava Gardner • Bette Davis • Brad Pitt • Breen (Star Trek) • Bride • Britney Spears • Cinema of the United States • Close-up • Clothing • clytemnestra • Concubinage • Cosmetics • Costume • costume designer • courtship • Demetrius and the Gladiators • Elaan of Troyius • Elopement (marriage) • Episode • Euripides • Exoticism • fan magazine • Fashion • feature film • femininity • Feminism • Femme fatale • Flapper • frat house • Gender Bender • Grace Kelly • Grace Lee (director) • Greek alphabet • Greek Mythology • Greta Garbo • Helen of Troy • Helen O'Loy • Her Story (video game) • hollywood romance • Hollywood Star • Jean Harlow • Jennifer Aniston • Joan Crawford • Kim Kardashian • Kim Novak • Life Show • Marilyn Monroe • Marlene Dietrich • Messalina • Model (person) • Mordaunt Hall • Movie Star • Musical Theatre • Mythology • narrative • New York Graphic • Odysseus • Of Course (How I Met Your Mother) • On Beauty • Opening credits • Party Girl (TV series) • Photoplay • Pretext • Publicity • Rita Hayworth • Scarlett Johansson • special effect • Stripper • Take a Girl Like You • Take a Girl Like You (TV series) • The Heroine • The Private Life of Helen of Troy • To Helen • Toni Morrison • Trojan War • Trophy Wife (TV series) • Uhura • Universal Studios • Venus de Milo • World Movies
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22964-3 / 0691229643
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22964-5 / 9780691229645