Pygmalion meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer - for iPod/iPhone
14 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 14 years ago - ★★★★ - 10 ratingsThe popular American TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" spanned seven seasons and gained a cult following. But how is it linked to the culture of ancient Greece and Rome? On closer inspection, its characters and narratives are revealed to be new incarnations of ancient classical myths that have filtered down into modern media. This album explores one episode, "I Was Made to Love You", in which Warren creates an artificial perfect girlfriend, just as Pygmalion sculpts an ivory statue to be his partner in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Many interesting parallels demonstrate the way in which universal human anxieties about gender identity, femininity, control and sexuality are continuously being re-examined through myth. This material forms part of The Open University course A330 Myth in the Greek and Roman worlds.
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Pygmalion meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer
August 17, 2010 13:22 - 1 minute - 1.13 MBA short introduction to this album.
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Pygmalion and Popular Culture: Paula James
August 17, 2010 13:21 - 9 minutes - 8.94 MBHow an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer parallels the myth of Pygmalion.
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Pygmalion and Popular Culture: Lorna Jowett
August 17, 2010 13:20 - 9 minutes - 8.47 MBGender, femininity and identity in TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Pygmalion and Popular Culture: Amanda Potter
August 17, 2010 13:19 - 8 minutes - 7.55 MBHow viewers of Buffy the Vampire Slayer relate to the storyline as a modern reworking of Ovid's Pygmalion myth.
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From Pygmalion to Buffy: re-interpreting myth
August 17, 2010 13:18 - 9 minutes - 9.09 MBOpen University academic Paula James explains the links between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and classical mythology.
Transcript -- From Pygmalion to Buffy: re-interpreting myth
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Why study myth?
August 17, 2010 13:17 - 3 minutes - 3.33 MBChris Emlyn-Jones, Valerie Hope and Paula James reveal the enduring importance of myth.
Transcript -- Why study myth?
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A330: Myth in the Greek and Roman worlds
August 17, 2010 13:16 - 5 minutes - 30.4 MB VideoHow story and myth are embedded into the monuments and artefacts of ancient Greece and Rome.
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