A Literary Criticism of the Classical Themes and Allusions Found in The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games is a richly interwoven tapestry of numerous intriguing parallels to historical events and literary staples. Although set in a futuristic society, the chief inspirations for its narrative structure and themes are drawn from the ancient Mediterranean world. Classical themes and allusions permeate the first novel, and the connections to the classical are mythological, historical, linguistic, and stylistic in nature.
Intrigue, Blood, and Naked Breasts: Strategies of the Epic Series on Premium Cable
The epic, in particular the sword-
Frank Miller
Has 300 so successfully appealed to audiences globally because of, or despite, its extremely violent, racist, homophobic, and sexist subtext?…This paper approaches 300 as a media product produced and consumed in spatially specific ways. I present a geographical reading of 300
This is Sparta?
Neither film, however, gives any real screen time, or indeed mention of, the social structure of ancient Sparta.
Cinema and the Fall of Rome
Ancient Rome even more than Greece has assumed a regular place in popular culture.
The Image of Ancient Rome in the Cinema
The ancestral memory of the Roman Empire has been the most persistent theme defining European civilization. From this vanished political entity of antiquity the modern divisions of Western, Central, and Eastern Europe have drawn much of their governmental, military, religious, and cultural heritage and practice.
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightening Thief
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightening Thief Synopsis Trouble prone Percy Jackson is having problems in high school – but that’s the…
Spartacus Before Marx: Liberty and Servitude
The story of the pre-Marxian ideology of Spartacus is not without its own peculiar interests. It is a strange narrative prompted both by the birth of a modern analytical, and political, interest in slavery, and in parallel debates over the meaning of liberty and servitude.