Responses to Oliver Stone's Alexander : film, history, and cultural studies
In 2004 director Oliver Stone's epic film ""Alexander"" generated a renewed interest in Alexander the Great. The critical response to the film offers a fascinating lesson in the contentious dialogue between historiography and modern entertainment. This book scrutinizes Stone's project from its inception and design to its production and reception.
eBook, English, 2010
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis., 2010
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (vii, 370 pages).
9780299232832, 9780299232849, 0299232832, 0299232840
550604989
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 Adventure story / Robin Lane Fox
The 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 Silveira Cyrino
The cult of Hephaestion / Jeanne Reames
Alexander's dream: Macedonians and foreigners. Oliver Stone, Alexander, and the unity of mankind / Thomas Harrison
"Help me, Aphrodite!" depicting the royal women of Persia in Alexander / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Ways of viewing Alexander. Viewing the past: cinematic exegesis in the caverns of Macedonia / Verity Platt
Blockbuster! museum responses to Alexander / John F. Cherry
Afterword / Oliver Stone
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