Ovid on Screen: A Montage of Attractions

by Martin M Winkler and Martin M. Winkler

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108485405
• ISBN13: 9781108485401
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"