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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1137390018
ISBN-13
9781137390011
Edition
2017 ed.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
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Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 30th, 2018
Print length
311 Pages
Product Classification:
Film theory & criticismFilm history, theory or criticism
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This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of how the ancient past has shaped screen stardom in Hollywood since the silent era. This interdisciplinary study will be significant for anyone interested in star studies, film and cultural history, and classical reception.
This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of how the ancient past has shaped screen stardom in Hollywood since the silent era. It engages with debates on historical reception, gender and sexuality, nostalgia, authenticity and the uses of the past. Michael Williams gives fresh insights into ''divinized stardom'', a highly influential and yet understudied phenomenon that predates Hollywood and continues into the digital age.
Case studies include Greta Garbo and Mata Hari (1931); Buster Crabbe and the 1930s Olympian body; the marketing of Rita Hayworth as Venus in the 1940s; sculpture and star performance in Oliver Stone''s Alexander (2004); landscape and sexuality in Troy (2004); digital afterimages of stars such as Marilyn Monroe; and the classical body in the contemporary ancient epic genre. The author''s richly layered ''archaeological'' approach uses detailed textual analysis and archival research to survey the use of the myth and iconography of ancient Greece and Rome in some of stardom''s most popular and fascinating incarnations.
This interdisciplinary study will be significant for anyone interested in star studies, film and cultural history, and classical reception.
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