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Friday, June 19, 2020

Review of Maurice, Screening Divinity

BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Screening divinity.
Lisa Maurice, Screening divinity. Screening Antiquity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. xi, 228 p.. ISBN 9781474425735 £75.00.

Review by
Meredith Prince, Auburn University. mdp0007@auburn.edu

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Maurice makes an important contribution to classical reception studies, in particular the reception of antiquity in film and television, with her examination of the divine on screen, especially with her consideration of both mythological/fantasy and religious/biblical epic genres, their links with each other, and their overlapping as one. ...
Cross-file under Cinematography.

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