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Author:   Rachael Kelly
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9781780765747

ISBN 10:   1780765746
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   12 June 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 'A Sort of Retrofitting of the Past with the Present' Chapter 1 Marcus Antonius: A Life In Invective Chapter 2 'There's a Great Spirit Gone': The Absence of Fulvia and Curio Chapter 3 'Th' Abstract of All Faults': Shakespeare's Antony As A Cultural Template Chapter 4 Augustan Projections: From Shakespeare to Rome Chapter 5 'Neither Wit, Nor Words, Nor Worth': Antony versus the Hegemonic Man Chapter 6 A Modern Morality Tale: Embellishments from the Screen Age Conclusion 'A Tale of Modern Times in Fancy Dress' Bibliography Filmography Appendix: Timeline of Historical Events

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Rachael Kelly has fashioned a dazzling and insightful new study... With expert analyses of the foundational texts of Cicero, Plutarch, and Shakespeare, alongside sharp, engaging elucidations of an array of essential films and televisual texts from De Mille's Cleopatra (1934) and Mankiewicz's Cleopatra (1963) to HBO-BBC's Rome (2005-07), Mark Antony and Popular Culture makes a major original contribution to the fields of classical receptions and gender studies, as Kelly unpacks with clarity and verve the Herculean intemperance projected onto the Antony screen-icon and positions it as an emblem of contemporary anxieties, fears, and fantasies about idealized masculinity and its modern manufacture. Kelly's brilliant new work is quite simply a tour de force - theoretically acute, historically informed, and popularly inspired - befitting the most (in)famous lover and rogue of all time. Monica S. Cyrino, Professor of Classics, University of New Mexico, USA At last - an original and engaging assessment of Mark Antony's place in popular culture. Rachel Kelly argues forcefully that we should turn our attention from Cleopatra and Julius Caesar to the enigmatic figure of Antony, the dissolute yet gifted Roman general. She explains clearly how and why the Antony we see in film and television puts on display modern anxieties about masculinity. In doing so, Kelly illuminates for us both Antony's important social function and his continuing fascination. Maria Wyke, Professor of Latin, UCL, London

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Rachael Kelly is a graduate of the University of Ulster, where she was awarded a PhD in Film and Gender Studies. Her research explores the cultural function of Mark Antony in screen texts and screen portrayals of Cleopatra in light of recent debates in feminist film theory.

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