Casting Black Athenas: Black Representation of Ancient Greek Goddesses in Modern Audiovisual Media and Beyond
Casting Black Athenas: Black Representation of Ancient Greek Goddesses in Modern Audiovisual Media and Beyond
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选角黑人雅典娜：现代视听媒体及其他领域中古希腊女神的黑人代表
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2023
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Maciej P Paprocki
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Aimee Hinds Scott;Maciej P Paprocki
摘要本文着重探讨了电影和电视中的希腊罗马式的黑人形象，探讨了使观众对这种形象作出中立或有利反应的历史和意识形态条件。本文从跨媒介的角度，探讨了希腊神话中的诸神观念在大众文化和想象中逐渐脱节的交叉力量。这些力量包括对古代性别及其艺术解释的非专业理解，种族与肤色主义，以及电影的商品文化。本文中研究的一些黑人女演员的形象出现在受迪士尼想象或影响的作品中：Hercules（1997年电影，1998-1999年动画系列），小美人鱼（1989年电影，2008年百老汇音乐剧）（2011-2018电视剧），而其他人出现在Syfy的魔术师（2015-2020电视剧）和里克·赖尔登的珀西杰克逊（2010年电影和即将到来的电视剧）。将黑人女性塑造成希腊女神逐渐削弱了白人与希腊罗马神之间的概念纠缠，促使观众通过文化积累接受神灵的替代表现。
Abstract This article focuses on Black representations of Greco-Roman goddesses in film and on television, exploring the historical and ideological conditions which have allowed audiences to react neutrally or favorably toward such representations. Adopting the transmedial perspective, the intersecting forces that have gradually disjointed conceptions of the gods and goddesses of Greek mythology in popular culture and imagination are considered. Such forces include nonspecialist understandings of ancient gender and its artistic interpretation, race versus colorism, and the commodity culture of cinema. Some portrayals of Black goddesses examined in this article appear in works imagineered or influenced by Disney: Hercules (1997 film, 1998–1999 animated series), The Little Mermaid (1989 film, 2008 Broadway musical) and Once Upon a Time (2011–2018 television series), whereas others appear in Syfy’s The Magicians (2015-2020 television series) and Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson (2010 film and the upcoming television series). Casting Black women as Greek goddesses gradually weakens the conceptual entanglement between the Whiteness and the Greco-Roman divine, priming audiences to accept alternative representations of deities through cultural accretion.