Screening Love and Sex in the Ancient World

Introduction: Screening Love & Sex in the Ancient World; M.S.Cyrino PART I: SCREENING LOVE AND SEX IN ANCIENT MYTH AND LITERATURE G. W. Pabst's Hesiodic Myth of Sex in Die Büchse der Pandora (1929); L.F.Garcia, Jr. Kiss Me Deadly (1955): Pandora and Prometheus in Robert Aldrich's Cinematic Subversion of Spillane; P.James Perversions of the Phaeacians: The Gothic Odyssey of Angels & Insects (1996); M.Safran Woman Trouble: True Love and Homecoming in Pedro Almodóvar's Volver (2006); C.Pache Sappho and Pocahontas in Terrence Malick's The New World (2005); S.Easton Soul Fuck: Possession and the Female Body in Antiquity and in Cinema; K.Day Ancient Allusions and Modern Anxieties in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954); C.M.McDonough PART II: SCREENING LOVE AND SEX IN ANCIENT HISTORY Gorgo at the Limits of Liberation in Zack Snyder's 300 (2006); V.Tomasso Oliver Stone's Unmanning of Alexander the Great in Alexander (2004); J.B.Pierce The Order of Orgies: Sex and the Cinematic Roman; S.Raucci Partnership and Love in Spartacus: Blood and Sand (2010); A.Augoustakis Objects of Desire: Female Gazes and Male Bodies in Spartacus: Blood and Sand (2010); A.K.Strong Glenn Close Channels Theda Bara in Maxie (1985): A Chapter in the Social History of the Snake Bra; G.N.Daugherty Virility and Licentiousness in Rome 's Mark Antony (2005-07); R.Kelly Love, Rebellion, and Cleavage: Boadicea's Hammered Breastplate in The Viking Queen (1967); A.Futrell Subverting Sex and Love in Alejandro Amenábar's Agora (2009); J.Paul