Spartacus in the television arena : essays on the Starz series / edited by Michael G. Cornelius.
"The image of Spartacus as a noble if doomed avenger is familiar and his story has been retold through history as a cautionary tale about social injustice. The series Spartacus takes a different view, with a graphically violent depiction of the man. This collection of new essays studies the series a...
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| Language: | English |
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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
2015.
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| Physical Description: | viii, 212 pages : illustration ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction: blood, sand and men / Michael G. Cornelius
- Arenas of memory: Spartacus and the remediation of historical narratives / Drago Manea
- "It is for history to decide": the story space of the Spartacus series / James Klima
- The sound world of Spartacus: representations of ancient musical instruments in the series / Lorenzo Sorbo
- Single combat, the semiotics of the arena and martial intimacy / Larry T. Shillock
- Spartacus' entrapment in the underworld in blood and sand / Rachel S. McCoppin
- Blood, sex, sand and mills: the sociological imagination between gladiators / Jason Smith
- Spartacus and the shifting sands of sacred space / Michael G.Cornelius
- The predators of Capua: Spartacus and the limits of the human / Ariel Gómez Ponce
- (Re)presenting the phallus: gladiators and their "swords" / Robert K. Dickson and Michael G. Cornelius
- Queer heroes and action heroines: gender and sexuality in Spartacus / Anna Foka.