By Amanda Potter As I write this I realise that many Wonder Woman fans across the UK, and the world, will not yet have been able to see Wonder Woman … Read More
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020): The Truth Will Set You Free?
Film & TV
Entering the Classical World through Silent Cinema
by Maria Wyke (Professor of Latin, University College London) Recently I came across a silent short in the archives of the US Library of Congress that displays the eruption of … Read More
Omnia vincit amor? An interview with Matteo Rovere, director of Il Primo Re
by Giacomo Savani (University of Leeds) g.savani@leeds.ac.uk When I first came across Matteo Rovere’s Il Primo Re (‘The First King’) last December, I tweeted the poster of the film with … Read More
How far is too far? Testing the Boundaries of Classical Reception
by Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey University) Locating Classical Receptions on Screen: Masks, Echoes, Shadows, ed. R. Apostol and A. Bakogianni, in the New Antiquity series, Palgrave Macmillan (2018), 198 pp. It is an … Read More
Audio / Visual Romans
— Report by Maria Wyke (UCL) Cinema from its beginnings offered a radically new way of experiencing ancient Rome. Film brought ancient Rome to life, and gave it colour, movement … Read More
Tony Keen: Designing a Classics and Cinema Module
This spring I returned to teaching Roehampton’s third-year Classics and Cinema module. It was to teach this that I’d first come to Roehampton, though after a couple of presentations I’d … Read More
Amanda Potter: Wonder Woman – An “Awesome” Ancient Hero for the Modern World
It was with much excitement and a little nervousness that I went to the cinema on 3 June to watch the new Wonder Woman film, directed by Patty Jenkins and … Read More
Christopher McDonough: Forgetting and Remembering Jules Dassin’s Phaedra
Last month, I was at the Classical Association meeting in Canterbury and, having heard many fine papers on film reception, was finishing up my meal at the Friday night banquet … Read More
Ben Greet: Classics in Star Trek
Star Trek exists as what Daniel Bernardi calls a ‘mega-text’, a group of televisual, filmic, literary, auditory, and other ‘texts’ that all share a relatively cohesive fictional universe. The amount … Read More
Anastasia Bakogianni: Between Tradition and Creativity – Modern Greek Cinematic Receptions of the Classical World
How can ancient tragedy be transplanted into the modern medium of film? What are some of the obstacles filmmakers have to overcome when they attempt to transform an ancient theatrical … Read More