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Classical Literature on Screen: Affinities of Imagination Winkler, Martin M. (George Mason University, Virginia)
Classical Literature on Screen: Affinities of Imagination
Winkler, Martin M. (George Mason University, Virginia)
This book argues for a new approach to the creative affinities between ancient verbal and modern visual narratives. Examines screen adaptations of classical epic, tragedy, comedy, myth, and history using ancient theories of drama and rhetoric. Demonstrates the undiminished vitality and importance of classical antiquity in our visually oriented media.
400 pages, 54 b/w illus.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 14, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9781107191280 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 424 |
| Dimensions | 254 × 186 × 25 mm · 1 kg |
| Language | English |