Film stardom and the ancient past : idols, artefacts and epics /
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 int...
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| Μορφή: | Βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2017.
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| Περίληψη: | 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 genre. |
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| Φυσική περιγραφή: | xiv, 311 σ. : εικ. ; 22 εκ. |
| Βιβλιογραφία: | Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφία (σ. 283-294) και ευρετήριο. |
| ISBN: | 9781137390011 (acidfree paper) 9781137390028 1137390018 (acidfree paper) |
