Ovid on Screen

By Martin M Winkler and Martin M. Winkler

Book Overview

This book presents the first systematic appreciation of Ovid's extensive influence on, and affinity with, modern visual culture. Some topics are directly related to Ovid; others exhibit features, characters, or themes analogous to those in his works. The book demonstrates the wide-ranging ramifications that Ovidian archetypes, especially from the Metamorphoses, have provoked in a modern artistic medium that did not exist in Ovid's time. It ranges from the earliest days of film history (Georges M li s's discovery of screen metamorphosis) and theory (Gabriele D'Annunzio's fascination with the metamorphosis of Daphne; Sergei Eisenstein's concept of film sense) through silent films, classic sound films, commercial cinema, art-house and independent films to modernism and the C.G.I. era. Films by well-known directors, including Ingmar Bergman, Walerian Borowczyk, Jean Cocteau, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Fritz Lang, Max Oph ls, Alain Resnais, and various others, are analyzed in detail. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108706959
• ISBN13: 9781108706957
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 466 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"