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Film Stardom and the Ancient Past

Idols, Artefacts and Epics

Michael Williams

Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date : 2018-01-13

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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. 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 themyth 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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About the book

Author

Michael Williams

Imprint

Palgrave Macmillan

Collection

n.c

Publication date

2018-01-13

Pages

311 pages

Print ISBN

9781137390011

Language

English

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9781137390028

Price

£99.50

Copy count 3

Print count 31

File size 5151 Ko

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9781137390028

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Copy count 3

Print count 31

File size 1423 Ko

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