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Responses to Oliver Stone's Alexander: film, history, and cultural studies

Paul Cartledge and Fiona Rose
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  • Contents

  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page vii)
  • Introduction (PAUL CARTLEDGE and FIONA ROSE GREENLAND, page 3)
  • Part 1. Stone's Alexander
    • Oliver Stone's Alexander and the Cinematic Epic Tradition (JOANNA PAUL, page 15)
    • The Popular Reception of Alexander (JON SOLOMON, page 36)
  • Part 2. Precursors of Alexander
    • Alexander on Stage: A Critical Appraisal of Rattigan's Adventure Story (ROBIN LANE FOX, page 55)
    • The Appearance of History: Robert's Rossen's Alexander the Great (KIM SHAHABUDIN, page 92)
  • Part 3. Alexander's Intimates: Sexuality and Gender
    • Alexander and Ancient Greek Sexuality: Some Theoretical Considerations (MARILYN SKINNER, page 119)
    • Olympias and Oliver: Sex, Sexual Stereotyping and Women in Oliver Stone's Alexander (ELIZABETH D. CARNEY, page 135)
    • Fortune Favors the Blond: Colin Farrell in Alexander (MONICA SILVEIRA CYRINO, page 168)
    • The Cult of Hephaestion (JEANNE REAMES, page 183)
  • Part 4. Alexander's Dream: Macedonians and Foreigners
    • Oliver Stone, Alexander, and the Unity of Mankind (THOMAS HARRISON, page 219)
    • "Help me, Aphrodite!" Depicting the Royal Women of Persia in Alexander (LLYOD LLEWELLYN-JONES, page 243)
  • Part 5. Ways of Viewing Alexander
    • Viewing the Past: Cinematic Exegesis in the Caverns of Macedon (VERITY PLATT, page 285)
    • Blockbuster! Museum Responses to Alexander the Great (JOHN F. CHERRY, page 305)
  • Afterword (OLIVER STONE, page 337)
  • Contributors (page 353)
  • Index (page 357)
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Published: c2010
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780299232832 (ebook)
  • 9780299232849 (paper)
Subject
  • Film & Media Studies
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