[ecrea] Book Announcement: Film Stardom and the Ancient Past

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

 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

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