Audio-Visual Roman Women
This open-access book is an interdisciplinary and transnational study of how screen media can shape our perception of Roman women and project present gender inequalities onto them. Maria Wyke and Monika Wozniak explore a range of representations that have given life to Roman women through a multisen...
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| description | This open-access book is an interdisciplinary and transnational study of how screen media can shape our perception of Roman women and project present gender inequalities onto them. Maria Wyke and Monika Wozniak explore a range of representations that have given life to Roman women through a multisensory experience of history as image, movement and sound, starting from the 1900s through to the 2020s (from the arrival of cinema to the ascendance of video games). This book asks: what sources do screen media draw on for their Roman women (given the scarcity of suitable ancient material), how are they assembled aesthetically and ideologically using the specific devices of such media (from camerawork to gameplay), and who are they made by and for (especially in terms of gender)? Each chapter investigates the diverse ways these representations interlock with the social position of women at the time in which they were made, and consider to what extent they have responded to the emergence of feminism, the revisionist scholarship on ancient women that emerged in the mid-1970s, and the rise of the #MeToo movement from 2006. The challenge of creating authentic yet compelling portrayals of Roman women is greater than ever, in a media culture marked by anti-feminist rhetoric and a wide gap between our ancient sources (where female agency is tightly constrained) and current expectations for powerful women in popular culture. The volume will therefore provide a stronger platform on which to build the Roman women of the future. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com . Open access was funded by University College London. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1759382026-04-20T09:24:19Z Audio-Visual Roman Women Wyke, Maria Wozniak, Monika Roman women Popular culture Classical reception Gender Media studies Cinema Film Tv Videogames Social media Gladiators HBO Domina Livia Lucilla Messalina Quo Vadis thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATM Film, television, radio and performing arts genres::ATMH Film, television, radio genres: Historical thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DB Ancient, classical and medieval texts thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRS Ancient religions and Mythologies::QRSG Ancient Greek religion and mythology thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATJ Television thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history This open-access book is an interdisciplinary and transnational study of how screen media can shape our perception of Roman women and project present gender inequalities onto them. Maria Wyke and Monika Wozniak explore a range of representations that have given life to Roman women through a multisensory experience of history as image, movement and sound, starting from the 1900s through to the 2020s (from the arrival of cinema to the ascendance of video games). This book asks: what sources do screen media draw on for their Roman women (given the scarcity of suitable ancient material), how are they assembled aesthetically and ideologically using the specific devices of such media (from camerawork to gameplay), and who are they made by and for (especially in terms of gender)? Each chapter investigates the diverse ways these representations interlock with the social position of women at the time in which they were made, and consider to what extent they have responded to the emergence of feminism, the revisionist scholarship on ancient women that emerged in the mid-1970s, and the rise of the #MeToo movement from 2006. The challenge of creating authentic yet compelling portrayals of Roman women is greater than ever, in a media culture marked by anti-feminist rhetoric and a wide gap between our ancient sources (where female agency is tightly constrained) and current expectations for powerful women in popular culture. The volume will therefore provide a stronger platform on which to build the Roman women of the future. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com . Open access was funded by University College London. 2026-04-20T09:24:18Z 2026-04-20T09:24:18Z 2026-04-16T09:53:25Z 2025 book ONIX_20260415T184305_9781350461857_22 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/112327 9781350461857 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/175938 eng IMAGINES – Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts open access Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Bloomsbury Academic b7fec79e-c133-4cb3-9544-88060a4d4e06 9781350461857 Bloomsbury Academic 352 London open access |
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| topic | Roman women Popular culture Classical reception Gender Media studies Cinema Film Tv Videogames Social media Gladiators HBO Domina Livia Lucilla Messalina Quo Vadis thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATM Film, television, radio and performing arts genres::ATMH Film, television, radio genres: Historical thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DB Ancient, classical and medieval texts thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRS Ancient religions and Mythologies::QRSG Ancient Greek religion and mythology thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATJ Television thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history |
| topic_facet | Roman women Popular culture Classical reception Gender Media studies Cinema Film Tv Videogames Social media Gladiators HBO Domina Livia Lucilla Messalina Quo Vadis thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATM Film, television, radio and performing arts genres::ATMH Film, television, radio genres: Historical thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DB Ancient, classical and medieval texts thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRS Ancient religions and Mythologies::QRSG Ancient Greek religion and mythology thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATJ Television thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history |
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