Includes bibliographical references and index
Meredith E. Safran and Monica S. CyrinoPart 1.: Introduction: Cinemyths: classical myth on screen
Lisl Walsh: The hero's struggle ; "Italian Stallion" meets "Breaker of Horses": Achilles and Hector in Rocky IV (1985)
Scott A. Barnard: The isolated hero: Papillon (1973), Cast away (2000), and the Myth of Philoctetes
Osman Umurhan: The limits of human knowledge: Oedipal problems in A serious man (2009)
Seán Easton: Orpheus in a gray flannel suit: George Nolfi's The adjustment bureau (2011)
Antony Augoustakis: Part 2. ; Fashioning the feminine ; Dystopian Amazons: fantasies of patriarchy in Le Gladiatrici (1963)
Beverly J. Graf: Arya, Katniss, and Merida: empowering girls through the Amazonian archetype
Kaelie Thompson: The suspense thriller's Pygmalion complex: masculine desire in Vertigo (1958), Les Biches (1968), and Body double (1984)
Hunter H. Gardner: Plastic surgery: failed Pygmalions and decomposing women in Les yeux sans visage (1960) and Bride of re-animator (1989)
Alex McAuley: Part 3. ; Negotiating the cosmic divide ; Savior of the working man: Promethean allusions in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927)
Monica S. Cyrino: Magic, music, race: screening "Black enchantment" after Black Orpheus (1959)
Meredith E. Safran: Re-conceiving Hercules: divine paternity and Christian Anxiety in Hercules (2005)
Vincent Tomasso: The twilight of Olympus: deicide and the end of the Greek gods
Stacie Raucci: Part 4. ; Cinemyth-making ; Of marketing and men: making the cinematic Greek hero, 2010-2014
Lorenzo F. Garcia Jr.: John Cameron Mitchell's aristophanic cinema: Hedwig and the angry inch (2001)
David Bullen: Dionysus comes to Gotham: forces of disorder in The Dark Knight (2008)
Anise K. Strong: Hypatia and Brian: early Christianity as Greek mythological drama
Dan Curley.: Divine animation: Clash of the Titans (1981)
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