Screening Love and Sex in the Ancient World

1. Introduction Screening Love and Sex in the Ancient World
Monica S. Cyrino

Part 1. Screening Love and Sex in Ancient Myth and Literature

2. G. W. Pabst’s Hesiodic Myth of Sex in Die Büchse der Pandora (1929)
Lorenzo F. Garcia

3. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Paula James

4. Perversions of the Phaeacians
Meredith Safran

5. Woman Trouble
Corinne Pache

6. Sappho and Pocahontas in Terrence Malick’s The New World (2005)
Seán Easton

7. Soul Fuck
Kirsten Day

8. Ancient Allusions and Modern Anxieties in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
Christopher M. McDonough

Part 2. Screening Love and Sex in Ancient History

9. Gorgo at the Limits of Liberation in Zack Snyder’s 300 (2007)
Vincent Tomasso

10. Oliver Stone’s Unmanning of Alexander the Great in Alexander (2004)
Jerry B. Pierce

11. The Order of Orgies
Stacie Raucci

12. Partnership and Love in Spartacus: Blood and Sand (2010)
Antony Augoustakis

13. Objects of Desire
Anise K. Strong

14. Glenn Close Channels Theda Bara in Maxie (1985)
Gregory N. Daugherty

15. Virility and Licentiousness in Rome’s Mark Antony (2005–7)
Rachael Kelly

16. Love, Rebellion, and Cleavage
Alison Futrell

17. Subverting Sex and Love in Alejandro Amenábar’s Agora (2009)
Joanna Paul

Nyckelord: Cultural and Media Studies, Film History, Ancient History, Regional and Cultural Studies, Film and Television Studies, Cultural Studies, Genre