Ovid's myth of Pygmalion on screen : in pursuit of the perfect woman - James, Paula (London : Continuum, 2011)
1. Preface - Why Pygmalion?## 2. Introduction - Ovid's Pygmalion Myth and its cultural contexts## 3. My Fair Lady: the make-over movie from Shaw's Pygmalion to Miss Congeniality## 4. Bringing the Gods down to Earth - supernatural statues on film## 5. Lesser mortals, lesser movies and the mannequin factor## 6. Bathos and Pathos - perfect girlfriends who fail to please## 7. Producing Pandoras - screen robots and 'virtual' women as unpredictable partners## 8. Role reversals: Female empowerment and Haraway's 'cyborg manifesto'## 9. Crossing boundaries: returning Pygmalion to the pedestal?## 10. Where do we go from here? Thinking with Myth and Myth-making in the future
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