Item Number: 132338 Title: Ancient Magic and the Supernatural in the Modern Visual and Performing Arts Author: Carla, Filippo ; Irene Berti (eds) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9781472527837 Description: London: Bloomsbury, 2015. 24cm., hardcover, 3352pp., 25 b&w illus. Contents: 1. Introduction, I. Berti and F. Carlà. 2. Gods and Demons in Texts: Figures and Symbols of the Defixion Inscriptions of the Nymphaeum of Anna Perenna at Rome, J. Blänsdorf. 3. Imaging Magic, Imaging Thinking: The Transmission of Greek Drama from Sophocles to Crimp, L. Hardwick. 4. Celtic Magic and Rituals in The War Lord (F. Schaffner, 1965), D. Campanile. 5. The Phoenix, the Werewolf and the Centaur. The Reception of Mythical Beasts in the Harry Potter Novels and Their Film Adaptions, D. Hofmann. 6. Witch, Sorceress, Enchantress: Magic and Women from the Ancient World to the Present Time, G. Rocca and M. Treu. 7. Circe diva. The Reception of Circe in the Baroque Opera (17th Century), P. Castillo. 8. Medea, a Greek Sorceress in Modern Opera and Ballet: from Barber to Reimann, M. Reig and J. Carruesco. 9. Colchian Pharmaka: The Colours of Medea in 19th Century Painting in France and England, A. Grand-Clément and C. Ribeyrol. 10. Canidia and Erichtho, C. Walde. 11. Theoi becoming Kami. Classical Mythology in the Anime World, M. G. Castello and C. Scilabra. 12. Every Pony Has a Story: Revisions of Greco-Roman Mythology in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Priscilla Hobbs. 12. Project(ion) Wonder Woman - Metamorphoses of a Superheroine, M. Gindhart and A. Gietzen. 13. Ancient Horrors - Cinematic Antiquity and the Undead, M. Lindner. 14. The Depraved Devotion of Elagabalus. Images of the Priest-Emperor in the Visual and Performing Arts, M. Icks. 15. Women and Religion in the Epic Films: The Fifties' Advocate for Conversion and Today's Pillar of Paganism?, A. Wieber.
(Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception)
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