Ancient Greek Women in Film

391 Pages·2014·2.838 MB·English

by  Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos

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CLASSICAL PRESENCES
General Editors
Lorna Hardwick James I. Porter
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CLASSICAL PRESENCES
Attempts to receive the texts, images, and material culture of ancient
Greece and Rome inevitably run the risk of appropriating the past in
order to authenticate the present. Exploring the ways in which the
classicalpasthasbeenmappedoverthecenturies allows ustotracethe
avowal and disavowal of values and identities, old and new. Classical
Presences brings the latest scholarship to bear on the contexts, theory,
and practice of such use, and abuse, of the classical past.
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Ancient Greek
Women in Film
Edited by
KONSTANTINOS P. NIKOLOUTSOS
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Acknowledgements
This volume had its genesis in a panel of the same title organized at
Feminism&ClassicsV:‘BringingitAllBackHome’,whichtookplaceat
theUniversityofMichiganinMay2008.Thepanellaidthefoundations
foranongoingcollaborationamonganinternationalgroupofclassicists,
the result of which is the present collection. I would like to thank the
OUPanonymousrefereesfortheirinsightfulcommentsandsuggestions,
as well as the series editor, Lorna Hardwick, for embracing the project
enthusiastically since its inception. A special debt of gratitude is due to
Mary-Kay Gamel for soliciting three of the essays included here when
sheactedasco-editor.Shemadeimportantrecommendations,onbotha
theoreticalandpracticallevel,forwhichIammostthankful.Shecontrib-
utedimmenselytothesuccessoftheprojectandwaswithusalltheway
in spirit after her withdrawal. Special thanks are also owed to the OUP
commissioning editor, Taryn Das Neves, and the production editor,
Kizzy Taylor-Richelieu, for their help and guidance with all matters
related to the publication of this volume. The College of Arts and
Sciences at Saint Joseph’s University generously provided funds for the
creation of the index, for which I am most grateful. Finally, I would
like to thank all my contributors for their commitment, patience, and
supportduringtheentireprocess.
RubyBlondell’sessaywaspreviouslypublishedinClassicalReceptions
Journal 1 (2009): 1–26 and is reprinted by kind permission of Oxford
UniversityPress.Someparagraphsfrommyownchapterareincludedin
anarticleinClassicalWorld106.2:(2013):261–83andarereproducedby
permission of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States. Many of
theimagesareDVDstillstakenunderfairusepolicyforacademicuse.
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Contents
ListofFigures ix
ListofContributors xi
Introduction 1
KonstantinosP.Nikoloutsos
PartI. Helen
1. GazingatHelen:HelenasPolysemousIconinRobertWise’s
HelenofTroyandMichaelCacoyannis’TheTrojanWomen 19
BellaVivante
2. ‘ThirdCheerleaderfromtheLeft’:FromHomer’sHelen
toHelenofTroy 51
RubyBlondell
PartII. Medea
3. Medea’sEroticTextinJasonandtheArgonauts(1963) 75
KirkOrmand
4. Pasolini’sMedea:ATwentieth-CenturyTragedy 95
SusanO.Shapiro
5. RebelandMartyr:TheMedeaofLarsvonTrier 117
AnnetteM.Baertschi
PartIII. Penelope
6. ‘MadonnaandWhore’:TheManyFacesofPenelopein
Ulisse(1954) 139
JoannaPaul
7. WhyisPenelopeStillWaiting?TheMissingFeminist
ReappraisaloftheOdysseyinCinema,1963–2007 163
EdithHall
PartIV. OtherMythicalWomen
8. TheWomenofErcole 189
ArthurJ.Pomeroy
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9. AnnihilatingClytemnestra:TheSeveringoftheMother–
DaughterBondinMichaelCacoyannis’Iphigenia(1977) 207
AnastasiaBakogianni
10. MythicWomeninTonyHarrison’sPrometheus 235
HallieRebeccaMarshall
PartV. HistoricalWomen
11. BetweenFamilyandtheNation:GorgointheCinema 255
KonstantinosP.Nikoloutsos
12. RepresentingOlympias:ThePoliticsofGenderin
CinematicTreatmentsofAlexandertheGreat 279
KirstenDay
13. ‘AnAlmostAllGreekThing’:CleopatraVIIand
HollywoodImagination 305
LloydLlewellyn-Jones
Bibliography 331
Index 365
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List of Figures
1.1 Helen(RossanaPodestà)inHelenofTroy,dir.RobertWise.Credit:
[THEKOBALCOLLECTION] 25
1.2 Helen(IrenePapas)withMenelaus(PatrickMagee)
inTheTrojanWomen,dir.MichaelCacoyannis.Credit:
[THEKOBALCOLLECTION] 44
3.1 Close-upofMedea(NancyKovack)asshewatchesJasonbattle
theHydrainJasonandtheArgonauts,dir.DonChaffey.
©ColumbiaTristarHomeVideo,asubsidiaryofSonyPictures
Digital,inc.Allrightsreserved. 92
4.1 TheDioscuriinMedea,dir.PierPaoloPasolini 106
4.2 TheTwoCentaurs(LaurentTerzieffandGerardWeiss)
inMedea,dir.PierPaoloPasolini 113
4.3 Medea(MariaCallas)inMedea,dir.PierPaoloPasolini 115
5.1 FilmLogo,Medea,dir.LarsvonTrier 129
5.2 Medea(KirstenOlesen)andJason(UdoKier)inMedea,
dir.LarsvonTrier 131
5.3 Medea(KirstenOlesen)aftercompletingherrevenge
inMedea,dir.LarsvonTrier 135
6.1 Penelope(SilvanaMangano)inherbedchamberinUlisse,dir.
MarioCamerini.Credit:[LUXFILM/THE
KOBALCOLLECTION] 143
6.2 Circe(SilvanaMangano)andUlysses(KirkDouglas)
inUlisse,dir.MarioCamerini.Credit:[LUXFILM/THE
KOBALCOLLECTION] 153
9.1 Clytemnestra(IrenePapas)andIphigenia(TatianaPapamoschou)
onthejourneytoAulisinIphigenia,dir.MichaelCacoyannis 220
9.2 Agamemnon(KostasKazakos)triestoseparatemother
anddaughterinIphigenia,dir.MichaelCacoyannis 227
9.3 Iphigeniainhermother’sembraceinIphigenia,
dir.MichaelCacoyannis 228
11.1 Gorgo(AnnaSynodinou)embracingLeonidas(RichardEgan)
inThe300Spartans,dir.RudolphMaté 261
11.2 Artemisia(AnneWakefield)intheTentofXerxes(DavidFarrar)
inThe300Spartans,dir.RudolphMaté 270
11.3 Gorgo(AnnaSynodinou)andEllas(DianeBaker)spinning
andweavinginThe300Spartans,dir.RudolphMaté 271
12.1 Olympias(DanielleDarrieux)withhersonAlexander
(RichardBurton)inAlexandertheGreat,dir.RobertRossen 286