Acient Worlds in Film and Television, Gender and Politics

More than a century ago, filmakers made their primary focus innative and widely promulgated visions of antiquity, creating a profound effect on the critical, popular, and scholary reception of antiquity. In this volume, scholars from a variety of countries and a varying academic disciplines have addressed film`s way of using the field of Classical Reception to investigate, contemplate, and develop hypotheses about present day culture, society, and politics, with a particular emphasis on gender and gender roles, their relationship to one another, and how filmic constructions of masculitity and feminity shape and are shaped by interacting economic, political, and ideological practices.

Christian Pischel: Include me out – Odysseus on the margins of european genre cinema: Le Mépris, Ulisse, L`Odissea, in: Almut-Barbara Renger, Jon Solomon (Hg.), Acient Worlds in Film and Television, Gender and Politics, Leiden/Boston 2013, S. 195-211. (peer reviewed)