Film stardom and the ancient past : idols, artefacts and epics /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Williams, Michael, 1971- (συγγραφέας)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Θέματα: Κινηματογράφος > Ιστορία; Πολιτισμός, Αρχαίος, στον κινηματογράφο

 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. 

  Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: An Archaeology of Stardom -- 1. Idols -- 2. Ruins -- 3. About This Book -- pt. I Oracles and Olympians -- 2. Idols and Idolatry: Greta Garbo and Ramon Novarro in Mata Hari (1931) -- 1. Hollywood Oracles: The Sphinx Speaks -- 2. The `Stockholm Venus' and the `Adonis from Durango' -- 3. `Above Everything?': Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro and the Madonna -- 3. `The American Adonis': Search for Beauty (1934) and the Hollywood Olympian Body -- 1. Olympian Aesthetics in the 1930s -- 2. `The Screen's Most Perfect Physique': Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weissmuller -- 3. Search for Beauty and the `Symphony of Health' -- pt. II Rebuilding the Hollywood Pantheon -- 4. Marketing the Post-War Goddess: Rita Hayworth and Down to Earth (1947) --