Film Stardom And The Ancient Past

Author : Michael Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137390028

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Film Stardom and the Ancient Past by Michael Williams Pdf

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 the myth 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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004686823

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Brill's Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Warfare on Film by Anonim Pdf

Brill’s Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Warfare on Film is the first volume exclusively dedicated to the study of a theme that informs virtually every reimagining of the classical world on the big screen: armed conflict. Through a vast array of case studies, from the silent era to recent years, the collection traces cinema’s enduring fascination with battles and violence in antiquity and explores the reasons, both synchronic and diachronic, for the central place that war occupies in celluloid Greece and Rome. Situating films in their artistic, economic, and sociopolitical context, the essays cast light on the industrial mechanisms through which the ancient battlefield is refashioned in cinema and investigate why the medium adopts a revisionist approach to textual and visual sources.

Author : M. Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137291493

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Film Stardom, Myth and Classicism by M. Williams Pdf

Since the golden era of silent movies, stars have been described as screen gods, goddesses and idols. This is the story of how Olympus moved to Hollywood to divinise stars as Apollos and Venuses for the modern age, and defined a model of stardom that is still with us today.

Author : Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748675654

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Designs on the Past by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Pdf

Author : Alastair J.L. Blanshard,Emma Stafford
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004440067

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The Modern Hercules by Alastair J.L. Blanshard,Emma Stafford Pdf

The Modern Hercules explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles – the Roman Hercules – in western culture from the nineteenth century to the present day, exploring the hero’s transformations of identity and significance in a wide range of media.

Author : Ruby Blondell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780691229621

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Helen of Troy in Hollywood by Ruby Blondell Pdf

"This book explores the representation of Helen of Troy in Hollywood film and television, with a particular focus on her defining features: transcendent beauty and transgressive erotic agency. The first chapter, on early Hollywood, sets the scene by explaining the importance of ideas about Greek beauty at the beginning of cinema and highlighting some of the problems that continue to bedevil this topic, especially "realism" and the representation of supreme beauty. Blondell argues that the problem of Helen is baked into Hollywood from the start. In subsequent chapters Blondell examines specific screen adaptations in which Helen is featured. Each of these case studies locates a particular work in its historical, cultural, and generic context, as a framework for addressing the ways in which it approaches a range of interlocking questions about beauty, its representation, and the cinematic uses of myth. The second chapter is devoted to the sole Helenic feature film of the silent period, Alexander Korda's Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927). Part II moves to the big screen epic, pairing one film from each of the two great waves of ancient world epic spanning the latter half of the 20th century: Robert Wise's 1956 epic Helen of Troy and Wolfgang Petersen's more recent extravaganza, Troy (2004). In Part III she turns to television, with a chapter on episodic tele-fantasy followed by a study of the 2003 miniseries Helen of Troy. In some of these works Helen is the central character (or "hero"); in others she is at the periphery of a masculine adventure. But in all of them she represents the threat of superhuman beauty as an inheritance from classical Greece"--

Author : Suzanne Leonard,Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317593942

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Fifty Hollywood Directors by Suzanne Leonard,Yvonne Tasker Pdf

Fifty Hollywood Directors introduces the most important, iconic and influential filmmakers who worked in Hollywood between the end of the silent period and the birth of the blockbuster. By exploring the historical, cultural and technological contexts in which each director was working, this book traces the formative period in commercial cinema when directors went from pioneers to industry heavyweights. Each entry discusses a director’s practices and body of work and features a brief biography and suggestions for further reading. Entries include: Frank Capra Cecil B DeMille John Ford Alfred Hitchcock Fritz Lang Orson Welles DW Griffith King Vidor This is an indispensible guide for anyone interested in film history, Hollywood and the development of the role of the director.

Author : M. Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137291493

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Film Stardom, Myth and Classicism by M. Williams Pdf

Since the golden era of silent movies, stars have been described as screen gods, goddesses and idols. This is the story of how Olympus moved to Hollywood to divinise stars as Apollos and Venuses for the modern age, and defined a model of stardom that is still with us today.

Author : Joel Gwynne,Niall Richardson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030400644

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Cross Generational Relationships and Cinema by Joel Gwynne,Niall Richardson Pdf

Depictions of cross generational relationships have always been present in popular cinema. While such relationships have historically operated within the framework of heteronormativity, and have usually explored cross generational romance in the context of older men/younger women, contemporary depictions have expanded to focus also on taboo configurations of love between older women and younger men and cross generational LGBT coupledom. Contemporary depictions have sought to complicate not only heteronormativity in cross generational relationships, but also to navigate the differences between socially acceptable love and transgressive desire. This collection focuses on the changing values and attitudes of cross generational relationships and addresses the often divisive relationship between the discourses of youth and ageing in popular culture.

Author : Ricardo Apostol,Anastasia Bakogianni
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319964577

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Locating Classical Receptions on Screen by Ricardo Apostol,Anastasia Bakogianni Pdf

This volume explores film and television sources in problematic conversation with classical antiquity, to better understand the nature of artistic reception and classical reception in particular. Drawing inspiration from well-theorized fields like adaptation studies, comparative literature, and film, the essays in this collection raise questions fundamental to the future of reception studies. The first section, ‘Beyond Fidelity’, deals with idiosyncratic adaptations of ancient sources; the second section, ‘Beyond Influence’, discusses modern works purporting to adapt ancient figures or themes that are less straightforwardly ancient than they may at first appear; while the last section, ‘Beyond Original’, uses films that lack even these murky connections to antiquity to challenge the notion that studying reception requires establishing historical connections between works. As questions of audience, interpretation, and subjectivity are central to most contemporary fields of study, this is a collection that is of interest to a wide variety of readers in the humanities.

Author : Lindsay Steenberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350120082

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Are You Not Entertained? by Lindsay Steenberg Pdf

Anglo-American culture is marked by a gladiatorial impulse: a deep cultural fascination in watching men fight each other. The gladiator is an archetypal character embodying this impulse and his brand of violent and eroticised masculinity has become a cultural shorthand that signals a transhistorical version of heroic masculinity. Frequently the gladiator or celebrity fighter - from the amphitheatres of Rome to the octagon of the Ultimate Fighting Championships - is used as a way of insisting that a desire to fight, and to watch men fighting, is simply a part of our human nature. This book traces a cultural interest in stories about gladiators through twentieth and twenty-first-century film, television and videogames.

Author : Agata Frymus
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781978806085

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Damsels and Divas by Agata Frymus Pdf

Damsels and Divas examines the careers of three European stars of silent Hollywood: Pola Negri, Vilma Bánky and Jetta Goudal. Through the interrogation of their star personae - as depicted by their on-screen presence, film magazines, fan letters, popular press and promotional material - it analyses the meanings of Europeanness and whiteness in the United States.

Author : Georgina Gregory,Mike Dines
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350086944

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Exploring the Spiritual in Popular Music by Georgina Gregory,Mike Dines Pdf

This book highlights how the diverse nature of spiritual practices are experienced and manifest through the medium of popular music. At first glance, chapters on Krishnacore, the Rave Church phenomenon and post-punk repertoire of Psychic TV may appear to have little in common; however, this book draws attention to some of the similarities of the nuances of spiritual expression that underpin the lived experience of popular music. As an interdisciplinary volume, the extensive introduction unpacks and clarifies terminology relating to the study of religion and popular music. The cross-disciplinary approach of the book makes it accessible and appealing to scholars of religious studies, cultural studies, popular music studies and theology. Unlike existing collections dealing with popular music and religion that focus on a specific genre, this innovative book offers a range of music and case studies, with chapters written by international contributors.

Author : Lisa Maurice
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474425759

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Screening Divinity by Lisa Maurice Pdf

Engaging with recent scholarship on film, particularly film and theology as well as classical reception, Lisa Maurice considers the gods of Greek and Roman mythology alongside the biblical God of the Judeo-Christian tradition.

Author : David Greven
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780228019176

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Maurice by David Greven Pdf

Maurice, James Ivory’s 1987 adaptation of the E.M. Forster novel, follows an Edwardian man’s journey from the awakening of his desire for and love of men to self-acceptance. One of the most politically resistant films of the 1980s, Maurice dared to depict a young man’s coming-out story and a happy ending for its lovers, Maurice and Alec. James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant, a couple whose cinema is synonymous with period film adaptation, released Maurice during the first AIDS decade, a time of flagrant transatlantic homophobia. Criticism following its release described Ivory as a superficial and staid director, while the film was received as a regression to the uncinematic and overly faithful style that characterized the early adaptations by Merchant Ivory Productions. Offering a close reading of Forster’s novel and an analysis of Ivory’s distinctive visual style, Richard Robbins’s indelible score, and the performances of James Wilby, Hugh Grant, and Rupert Graves, David Greven argues that the film is a model of sympathetic adaptation. This study champions the film as the finest of the Merchant Ivory works, making a case for Ivory’s underappreciated talents as a director of great subtlety and intelligence, and for the film as one worth recuperating from its detractors. Understanding Maurice as a fully realized work of art and adaptation, this volume offers insight into how a stunning novel of gay love became a classic of queer film.