Dear All,
Apologies for cross-posting and self-promotion, but subscribers may be interested to know that my book, Film Stardom and the Ancient Past: Idols, Artefacts and Epics, has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. Feel free to request for your libraries - thanks!
The blurb:
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.
Further details are available here: http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137390011#aboutBook
Best wishes,
Michael Williams
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Dr Michael Williams
Associate Professor and Head of Department of Film
Faculty of Humanities
Avenue Campus
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BF
UK
Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 2248
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/film/michael_williams
NEW: Film Stardom and the Ancient Past: Idols, Artefacts and Epics: http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137390011
Film Stardom, Myth and Classicism: The Rise of Hollywood's Gods: http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9780230355446
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