Classical Myth on Screen

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
“Italian Stallion” Meets “Breaker of Horses”: Achilles and Hector in Rocky IV (1985)....Pages 15-26
The Isolated Hero: Papillon (1973), Cast Away (2000), and the Myth of Philoctetes....Pages 27-36
The Limits of Human Knowledge: Oedipal Problems in A Serious Man (2009)....Pages 37-47
Orpheus in a Gray Flannel Suit: George Nolfi’s The Adjustment Bureau (2011)....Pages 49-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Dystopian Amazons: Fantasies of Patriarchy in Le Gladiatrici (1963)....Pages 63-71
Arya, Katniss, and Merida: Empowering Girls through the Amazonian Archetype....Pages 73-82
The Suspense-Thriller’s Pygmalion Complex: Masculine Desire in Vertigo (1958), Les Biches (1968), and Body Double (1984)....Pages 83-93
Plastic Surgery: Failed Pygmalions and Decomposing Women in Les Yeux sans Visage (1960) and Bride of Re-Animator (1989)....Pages 95-105
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Savior of the Working Man: Promethean Allusions in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927)....Pages 109-119
Magic, Music, Race: Screening “Black Enchantment” after Black Orpheus (1959)....Pages 121-132
Re-conceiving Hercules: Divine Paternity and Christian Anxiety in Hercules (2005)....Pages 133-145
The Twilight of Olympus: Deicide and the End of the Greek Gods....Pages 147-157
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Of Marketing and Men: Making the Cinematic Greek Hero, 2010–2014....Pages 161-171
John Cameron Mitchell’s Aristophanic Cinema: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)....Pages 173-182
Dionysus Comes to Gotham: Forces of Disorder in The Dark Knight (2008)....Pages 183-193
Hypatia and Brian: Early Christianity as Greek Mythological Drama....Pages 195-206
Divine Animation: Clash of the Titans (1981)....Pages 207-217
Back Matter....Pages 219-257