Responses to Oliver Stone's Alexander: Film, History, and Cultural Studies (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)

Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction / Paul Cartledge and Fiona Rose Greenland
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Part 1. Stone's Alexander
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Oliver Stone's Alexander and the Cinematic Epic Tradition / Joanna Paul
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The Popular Reception of Alexander / Jon Solomon
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Part 2. Precursors of Alexander
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Alexander on Stage: A Critical Appraisal of Rattigan's Adventure Story / Robin Lane Fox
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The Appearance of History: Robert Rossen's Alexander the Great / Kim Shahabudin
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Part 3. Alexander's Intimates: Sexuality and Gender
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Alexander and Ancient Greek Sexuality: Some Theoretical Considerations / Marilyn B. Skinner
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Olympias and Oliver: Sex, Sexual Stereotyping, and Women in Oliver Stone's Alexander / Elizabeth D. Carney
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Fortune Favors the Blond: Colin Farrell in Alexander / Monica Silveira Cyrino
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The Cult of Hephaestion / Jeanne Reames
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Part 4. Alexander's Dream: Macedonians and Foreigners......Page 226
Oliver Stone, Alexander, and the Unity of Mankind / Thomas Harrison
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"Help me, Aphrodite!" Depicting the Royal Women of Persia in Alexander / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
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Part 5. Ways of Viewing Alexander
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Viewing the Past: Cinematic Exegesis in the Caverns of Macedon / Verity Platt
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Blockbuster!  Museum Responses to Alexander the Great / John F. Cherry
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Afterword / Oliver Stone
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Contributors
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Index
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