| 1. |
- Foka, Anna, 1981-
(författare)
-
The digital aesthetic in 'Atlantis: the evidence' (2010)
- 2018
-
Ingår i: Ancient Greece on British television. - Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press. - 9781474412599 - 9781474412612 - 9781474412605 ; , s. 187-202
-
Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
|
|
| 2. |
- Foka, Anna, 1981-
(författare)
-
Deconstructing Oedipus : Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite and the classical tradition
- 2017. - 11
-
Ingår i: The reception of ancient virtues and vices in modern popular culture. - Leiden and Boston : Brill Academic Publishers. - 9789004347717 - 9789004347724 ; , s. 167-186
-
Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The chapter examines the philosophical dichotomy between Hellenism and Hebraism in order to show how Mighty Aphrodite may be seen as a contemporary example of merging cultural identities, previously thought in contradiction to one another. Allen's reiteration of Oedipal references may be read as a dismantling of Classical Hellenic culture and a rearrangement intended for a 21st century New York setting. Allen constructs a fictional tragic space that is embedded in the main plot and that manifests itself in the form of tragic dramaturgy and scenic conventions.Against this backdrop, Allen's overall use of classical tradition may be considered self-referential: it points out to the director's own understanding of classical culture as a twenty first century Jewish New York film director. Ancient cultural forms mingle with contemporary film and mirror 'the two way relationship between the source text or culture and the new work and receiving elements'. Abort of their original context of antiquity, ritual, drama and myth, tragedy and the very figure of Oedipus are (paradoxically) cinematically deconstructed as humorous, and are granted a place within contemporaneity, finding a specific leeway of expression in classical Hollywood film narratives. The film is a commentary on the potentials of reinstating dominant structures of classical reception per se: Oedipus may become Anti-Oedipus, tragedy may turn into comedy and binary structures such as Hellenism and Hebraism may mingle together in perfect harmony.
|
|
| 3. |
- Foka, Anna, 1981-
(författare)
-
Remixing Classics for the Screen : Woody Allen and the Classical Tradition
- 2015
-
Ingår i: Studia Oliveriana. - Pesaro : Bononia University Press. - 0562-2964. ; 1, s. 55-76
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Several films by Woody Allen (Interiors, Oedipus Wrecks, Match Point and Mighty Aphrodite) contain elements of classical tradition that have been neglected or oversimplified by film scholarship as references to the director’s personal engagement with psychoanalysis. Using Mighty Aphrodite (1995) as illustration, I argue that these films convey the expression of contemporary social issues through a complex and multi-layered reception of classical culture that goes beyond pure psychoanalysis. In Mighty Aphrodite, specifically, Allen deploys the strict formalism of tragedy and the myth of Oedipus as film mechanisms for contemporary societal discourse. Via evaluation of film and narrative, I demonstrate that Allen’s classical reception is self-reflexive as it refers back to the very processes of performative arts. Furthermore, Allen utilizes the classical tradition as a form of expression in contemporary classical Hollywood narratives and creates a rich cultural experience for his audience; a cinematic treatise on cultural remix, dramatic formalism and classical reception per se.
|
|
| 4. |
|
|
| 5. |
-
Laughter, humor and the (un)making of gender : historical and cultural perspectives
- 2015. - 1
-
Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A fresh look at longstanding questions, across a temporal range (classical antiquity to the early modern) and a geographical range (Asia to Europe, Islam to Christendom). The optimistic investigators find gender subversion, women's agency, and men's self-criticism in comic forms from high (Homer) to low (folklore, burlesque, jokes, cartoons), imagining a complex audience.Humor is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. Throughout history, it has played a crucial role in defining gender roles and identities. This collection offers an in-depth thematic examination of this relationship between humor and gender, spanning a variety of historical and cultural backdrops. Bringing together a medley of case studies diachronically and across cultures, the book examines gendered humorous expressions from classical antiquity to the late eighteenth century and across visual culture, literature and performance in both European and Asian premodern contexts.
|
|
| 6. |
- Foka, Anna, 1981-, et al.
(författare)
-
Experiential Analogies : A Sonic Digital Ekphrasis as a Digital Humanities Project
- 2016
-
Ingår i: Digital Humanities Quarterly. - Boston : Alliance Digital Humanities Organizations. - 1938-4122. ; 10:2
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Humanistic uses of digital technologies have opened up new ways to think about, communicate, and discuss historical research. The common use of digital tools to visually represent ancient cultures and sites, however, has also introduced new issues. For example, critics have argued that digital visualisations, largely synonymous with reconstruction in 3D models, often attempt to represent a photorealistic-artificial vision of the past, and may often prove to be a way to communicate history to a large(r) audience [Forte and Siliotti 1997]. Against this backdrop, this article will discuss precisely how technology may help immerse researchers into historically situated life, and radically advance historical research. Adding to related criticisms of ocularcentric traditions of knowledge production, we contribute to this stream of research by arguing that contemporary visual representations of the past often concentrate on visual representations and seemingly maintain antiquity as a sanitised historio-cultural ideal [Westin 2012] [Tziovas 2014]. More specifically, this article seeks to demonstrate the potential of digital humanities to move beyond mere representations on screen and to mobilize other senses (specifically sound) as a historically situated component for research. For this purpose, we focus on the abstract principles and overall methodology for a recreation of the experience of sounds in the Roman amphitheatre.
|
|
| 7. |
- Foka, Anna, 1981-, et al.
(författare)
-
Visualizing Pausanias’s Description of Greece with contemporary GIS
- 2022
-
Ingår i: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. - : Oxford University Press. - 2055-7671 .- 2055-768X. ; 37:3, s. 716-724
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This progress article focuses on an overview of the potential and challenges of using contemporary Geographic Information System (GIS) applications for the visual rendering and analysis of textual spatial data. The case study is an ancient traveling narrative, Pausanias’s Description of Greece (Periegesis Hellados) which was written in the second century CE. First, we describe the process of converting the volumes to spatial data using a customized version of the open-source digital semantic annotation platform Recogito. Then the focus shifts to the implementation of collected and organized spatial data to a number of GIS applications: namely Google Maps, DARIAH Geo-Browser, Gephi, Palladio and ArcGIS. Through empirical experimentation with spatial data and their implementation in different platforms, our paper charts the ways in which contemporary GIS applications may be implemented to cast new light on ancient understandings of identity, space, and place.
|
|
| 8. |
- Foka, Anna, 1981-
(författare)
-
Queer heroes and action heroines : gender and sexuality in Spartacus
- 2015
-
Ingår i: Spartacus in the television arena. - Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland. - 9781476620305 - 9780786498017 ; , s. 1-220
-
Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Spartacus, the Thracian gladiator turned rebel leader, endures as a near-mythic hero who fought for the oppressed against a Roman oligarchy built on the backs of slave labor. The image of Spartacus as a noble if doomed avenger is familiar and his story has been retold through history as a cautionary tale about social injustice.The television series Spartacus takes a different view, with a violent depiction of the man and his times and a focus on the archetype of the gladiator—powerful, courageous and righteous. This collection of new essays studies the series as an exploration of masculinity.In the world of Spartacus, men jockey for social position, question the nature of their lives, examine their relationships with women and with each other, and explore their roles in society and the universe. The series also offers a compelling study of the composite nature of historical narrative in television and film, where key facts from original sources are interwoven with period embellishments, presenting audiences with a history and a fiction whose lines remain blurred by a distant yet all-too-familiar past.
|
|
| 9. |
|
|
| 10. |
- Chapman, Adam, et al.
(författare)
-
What is historical game studies?
- 2017
-
Ingår i: Rethinking history. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1364-2529 .- 1470-1154. ; 21:3, s. 358-371
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
|
|
