Mark Antony and popular culture : masculinity and the construction of an icon
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Mark Antony and popular culture : masculinity and the construction of an icon
（International library of cultural studies, 36）
I.B. Tauris, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-285) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Shakespeare called him "Th' abstract of all faults / That all men follow". For Plutarch he was a bon vivant whose excessive appetites and poor judgement overwhelmed his potential for greatness. History remembers him as the man who threw away an empire for love: an imperfect romantic hero, dashing but decadent, whose tragic narrative is conveniently contained by his death by suicide in Cleopatra's arms. Stemming from hostile Roman propaganda in the years leading up to his death, Mark Antony is generally presented in popular culture as a deeply flawed character, subject to emotional and physical excesses that are understood in gendered terms as defective, feminised masculinity. His notoriety for drunkenness, debauchery, decadence and profligacy have survived and flourished in contemporary screen representations. But who was Mark Antony? Was he Richard Burton's Byronic dilettante, the brooding soldier who allows his love for Cleopatra to dictate his political policy? Was he James Purefoy's amoral, impulsive bully-boy, loyal to no-one but himself and dedicated to the relentless pursuit of bodily gratification? Both - or neither?
In this fascinating account of a classical figure and his reception in popular culture, Rachael Kelly traces the Mark Antony myth in Hollywood historical epic film and television and examines the complex discourses of hegemonic masculinity that have shaped it. Certain tropes occur time and again in constructing Mark Antony for the screen, nurtured by the strong influence of Roman gendered social mores on Western society. Kelly exposes and examines these tropes in order to look at how and why Mark Antony as pop culture icon differs so substantially and specifically from the actual historical figure Marcus Antonius - once the most powerful man in the Roman world, and the man who nearly led the Republic into empire.
目次
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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