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 pa

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Idols, Artefacts and Epics

Michael Williams

Film Stardom and the Ancient Past

“This beautifully written book develops ideas which Michael Williams’s previous work brought to the attention of scholars in relation to silent Hollywood cinema and classicism, and tackles the perpetuation and persistence of the relationship between film stardom and Olympic ideals. A pleasure to read, this scholarly and authoritative study considers both the flagrant marketing of stars in this context, and more subtle influences which persist in Hollywood to this day.” —Lucy Bolton, Queen Mary University of London, UK “Williams’ book seriously advances the scholarly study of cinematic stardom. In its emphasis on the connection with the ancient world, it is an original contribution to the exploration of one of film’s most important phenomena, and is hugely eclectic in the range of sources it draws on. I’m sure that the book will be much welcomed in the realms of film scholarship.” —Brian McFarlane, Adjunct Professor at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia “Ambitious, groundbreaking, and meticulously researched Williams’ book excavates the classical roots of the ‘new’ gods and goddesses of Hollywood, from the introduction of sound in film to the digitally enhanced cinema of the twenty-first century. Together with his earlier investigation of the silent era (Palgrave: 2013), this volume belongs on the shelves of all those interested in first-class interdisciplinary research and in how the past continues to interact with and reshape both present and future.” —Anastasia Bakogianni, Lecturer in Classical Studies, Massey University, New Zealand

Michael Williams

Film Stardom and the Ancient Past Idols, Artefacts and Epics

Michael Williams Faculty of Humanities University of Southampton Southampton, UK

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