Responses to Oliver Stone's Alexander [electronic resource] : film, history, and cultural studies /

Responses to Oliver Stone's Alexander film, history, and cultural studies / [electronic resource] : edited by Paul Cartledge and Fiona Rose Greenland. - Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2010. - vii, 370 p. ; 23 cm. - Wisconsin studies in classics . - Wisconsin studies in classics. ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Paul Cartledge and Fiona Rose Greenland -- Stone's Alexander. Oliver Stone's Alexander and the cinematic epic tradition / Joanna Paul -- The popular reception of Alexander / Jon Solomon -- Precursors of Alexander. Alexander on stage: a critical appraisal of Rattigan's Adventure story / Robin Lane Fox -- The appearance of history: Robert Rossen's Alexander the Great / Kim Shahabudin -- Alexander's intimates: sexuality and gender. Alexander and ancient Greek sexuality: some theoretical considerations / Marilyn B. Skinner -- Olympias and Oliver: sex, sexual stereotyping, and women in Oliver Stone's Alexander / Elizabeth D. Carney -- Fortune favors the blond: Colin Farrell in Alexander / Monica Silveira Cyrino -- The cult of Hephaestion / Jeanne Reames -- Alexander's dream: Macedonians and foreigners. Oliver Stone, Alexander, and the unity of mankind / Thomas Harrison -- "Help me, Aphrodite!" depicting the royal women of Persia in Alexander / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones -- Ways of viewing Alexander. Viewing the past: cinematic exegesis in the caverns of Macedonia / Verity Platt -- Blockbuster! museum responses to Alexander / John F. Cherry -- Afterword / Oliver Stone.

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Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C. --In motion pictures.
Stone, Oliver--Criticism and interpretation.


Alexander (Motion picture)

--History and criticism.

Historical films