Description
About the Author
Kirk Freudenburg is Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Classics at Yale University. His previous publications include Satires of Rome: Threatening Poses from Lucilius to Juvenal and, as editor, The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire.
Reviews
Like the best films, [Virgil's Cinematic Art] is well paced, beautifully shot and scripted, action-packed and leaves you wanting more.... This short book punches well above its weight and is written with infectious panache and exciting appreciation of the visual and verbal magic on show in this poem. It deserves an Oscar. * Classics for All *
This scintillating study offers new close readings of Vergil's Aeneid by paying close attention to acts of seeing in the epic. Freudenburg handles complex ideas in an attractive, accessible style, combining more traditional forms of literary analysis with insights gained from narratology, cognitive science, and cinema studies. He has written a strikingly original book that should help every student of the Aeneid to look harder and become a better reader * Damien Nelis, University of Geneva *
Virgilian scholarship has two traditional foci: the power of images created by the text (ecphrasis) and the subjective, emotional style of the narrative. In this brilliant book, Kirk Freudenburg has found a way to embrace them both. Epic and cinema, he argues, must enter a deeper dialogue: long before film, epic is a lab for visual effects and viewer participation * Alessandro Barchiesi, New York University *
Book Information
ISBN 9780197643242
Author Kirk Freudenburg
Format Hardback
Page Count 200
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 440g
Dimensions(mm) 162mm * 242mm * 19mm