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Film Stardom and the Ancient Past: Idols, Artefacts and Epics de Michael Williams

Film Stardom and the Ancient Past: Idols, Artefacts and Epics

Autor Michael Williams
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 ian 2018
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 epic genre. The author’s richly layered ‘archaeological’ approach uses detailed textual analysis and archival research to survey the use of themyth and iconography of ancient Greece and Rome in some of stardom’s most popular and fascinating incarnations. 
This interdisciplinary study will be significant for anyone interested in star studies, film and cultural history, and classical reception.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137390011
ISBN-10: 1137390018
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: XIV, 311 p. 21 illus., 16 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2017
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

1. Introduction: An Archaeology of Stardom.- 2. Section One: Oracles and Olympians - ‘Above Everything?’: Idols and Idolatry in Mata Hari (1931).- 3. ‘The American Adonis’: The Hollywood Olympian Body.- 4. Section Two: Down to Earth: Rebuilding the Hollywood Pantheon - ‘A Dream of a Theme’: Down to Earth (1947), Rita Hayworth and Marketing the Post-war Goddess.- 5. Idols, Fragments and Reconstructions.- 6. Section Three: Heroes Will Rise: Patinated Pasts and Digital Futures - Patinating the Past: Stars, Artefacts and Alexander (2004).- 7. ‘Remember Me’: Memory and Landscape in Troy (Wolfgang Petersen, 2004).- 8. Titans, Immortals and Broken Idols: Classicism in the Digital Age. 

Recenzii

“In the book, the author effectively shows the links between the past and present, and therefore the ethereal nature of stardom … . Williams does so extremely successfully by examining studio portraiture, promotional materials, film texts and critical reception. … However, what makes this book even more impressive is Williams’ wealth of knowledge on the figures of the ancient past, thus he uses this in interesting and unique ways to explore the stars and their films.” (Gillian Kelly, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, January 15, 2019)

Notă biografică

Michael Williams is Associate Professor in Film at the University of Southampton, UK. He is the author of Film Stardom, Myth and Classicism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), Ivor Novello (BFI, 2003), and co-editor of British Silent Cinema and the Great War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

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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. The author’s richly layered ‘archaeological’ approach uses detailed textual analysis and archival research to survey the use of the myth and iconogr
aphy of ancient Greece and Rome in some of stardom’s most popular and fascinating incarnations. 

This interdisciplinary study will be significant for anyone interested in star studies, film and cultural history, and classical reception.

Caracteristici

The first major study of the use of the ancient past in the construction of Hollywood stardom after the silent era Offers new perspectives on enduringly popular stars such as Greta Garbo and Marilyn Monroe, alongside less well-known films and stars, such as Buster Crabbe and the pre-Code comedy, Search for Beauty (1934) Provides a historically rigorous and timely study on the contemporary ancient epic, including discussion of Alexander, Troy, Immortals, and Clash of the Titans, as well as analysis of ‘divinized stardom’ in the digital domain online and in social media Presents exhaustive archival research and uses a variety of materials -- ranging from film texts, theory, fine art, fan-magazines, to studio production files and promotional materials Brings together a number of fields both within Film Studies (such as cinema history, star and performance studies, set design, memory studies, genre studies), and beyond, in cluding Art History, Classical Reception and Gender and Queer Studies