Classics for All

Reworking Antiquity in Mass Culture. Edited by Dunstan Lowe and Kim Shahabudin.

Essays held at a conference at the University of Reading in April 2007. Contributors discuss the uses of antiquity in television programmes, computer games, journalism, Hollywood blockbusters, B-movies, pornography, Web 2.0, radio drama, and children's literature. Its diverse contents celebrate the continuing influence of Classics on modern life: from controversies within academia to ephemeral pop culture, from the traditional to the cutting-edge. With contributions by Bettany Hughes, Helen Lovatt, Amanda Wrigley et al. IX,288 Seiten mit Abb., gebunden (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2009) Mängelexemplar