Greek Tragedy on Screen

by Pantelis Michelakis

Greek Tragedy on Screen considers a wide range of films which engage openly with narrative and performative aspects of Greek tragedy. This volume situates these films within the context of on-going debates in film criticism and reception theory in relation to theoretical or critical readings of tragedy in contemporary culture. Michelakis argues that film adaptations of Greek tragedy need to be placed between the promises of cinema for a radical popular...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019923907X
• ISBN13: 9780199239078
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"