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Responses to Oliver Stone's Alexander : film, history, and cultural studies / edited by Paul Cartledge and Fiona Rose Greenland.
- Title
- Responses to Oliver Stone's Alexander : film, history, and cultural studies / edited by Paul Cartledge and Fiona Rose Greenland.
- Publication
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2010.
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- Description
- vii, 370 p.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Wisconsin studies in classics
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Wisconsin studies in classics.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780299232849 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0299232840 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780299232832 (e-book)
- 0299232832 (e-book)
- LCCN
- ^^2009010258
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library