| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Title Information: |
film, history, and cultural studies |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
RoseFiona, 1975- |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
CartledgePaul, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Madison, Wis. |
| Published: |
University of Wisconsin Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2010 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (vii, 370 p.). |
| Series: |
Wisconsin studies in classics |
| Subject: |
Historical films - History and criticism - |
| Personal Subject: |
Stone - Oliver - Criticism and interpretation - |
| Personal Subject: |
Alexander - In motion pictures - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780299232832/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: |
9780299232832electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780299232849pbk. |
| ISBN: |
0299232840pbk. |
| Content Note: |
Introduction / Paul Cartledge and Fiona Rose Greenland -- Stone's Alexander. Oliver Stone's Alexander and the cinematic epic tradition / Joanna Paul -- The popular reception of Alexander / Jon Solomon -- Precursors of Alexander. Alexander on stage: a critical appraisal of Rattigan's adventureStory / Robin Lane Fox -- Appearance of history: Robert Rossen's Alexander the Great / Kim Shahabudin -- Alexander's intimates: sexuality and gender. Alexander and ancient Greek sexuality: some theoretical considerations / Marilyn B. Skinner -- Olympias and Oliver: sex, sexual stereotyping, and women in Oliver Stone's Alexander / Elizabeth D. Carney -- Fortune favors the blond: Colin Farrell in Alexander / Monica S. Cyrino -- The cult of Hephaestion / Jeanne Reames -- Alexander'sdream: Macedonians and foreigners. Oliver Stone, Alexander, and the unity of mankind / Thomas Harrison -- "Help me,Aphrodite!" depicting theroyal women of Persia in Alexander / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones -- Ways ofviewing Alexander. Viewing the past: cinematic exegesis in the cavernsof Macedonia / Verity Platt -- Blockbuster! museum responses to Alexander / John F. Cherry -- Afterword / Oliver Stone |