Responses to Oliver Stone's Alexander
Subtitle: film, history, and cultural studies
By: edited by Paul Cartledge and Fiona Rose Greenland.
Contributors: Cartledge, Paul.; Rose, Fiona, 1975-
Series: Wisconsin studies in classics; Wisconsin studies in classics
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Madison, Wis
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780299232849; 9780299232832
Subjects: Alexander, -- the Great, -- 356-323 B.C. -- In motion pictures; Stone, Oliver -- Criticism and interpretation; Alexander (Motion picture); Historical films -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Paul Cartledge and Fiona Rose Greenland; title: Stone's Alexander. Oliver Stone's Alexander and the cinematic epic tradition / Joanna Paul; title: The popular reception of Alexander / Jon Solomon; title: Precursors of Alexander. Alexander on stage: a critical appraisal of Rattigan's adventure Story / Robin Lane Fox; title: Appearance of history: Robert Rossen's Alexander the Great / Kim Shahabudin; title: Alexander's intimates: sexuality and gender. Alexander and ancient Greek sexuality: some theoretical considerations / Marilyn B. Skinner; title: Olympias and Oliver: sex, sexual stereotyping, and women in Oliver Stone's Alexander / Elizabeth D. Carney; title: Fortune favors the blond: Colin Farrell in Alexander / Monica S. Cyrino; title: The cult of Hephaestion / Jeanne Reames; title: Alexander's dream: Macedonians and foreigners. Oliver Stone, Alexander, and the unity of mankind / Thomas Harrison; title: "Help me, Aphrodite!" depicting the royal women of Persia in Alexander / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones; title: Ways of viewing Alexander. Viewing the past: cinematic exegesis in the caverns of Macedonia / Verity Platt; title: Blockbuster! museum responses to Alexander / John F. Cherry; title: Afterword / Oliver Stone.