Responses to Oliver Stone's Alexander : film, history, and cultural studies / edited by Paul Cartledge and Fiona Rose Greenland.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2010.
Description
vii, 370 p. ; 23 cm.

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    Series
    Wisconsin studies in classics [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    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
    OCLC
    317462445
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