Film Stardom, Myth and Classicism

• Utgivningsdatum: 2013-01-01
• Mått: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
• Vikt: 337 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 252
• Upplaga: 13001
• Förlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• ISBN: 9781349347155

• Medievetenskap
• Scenkonst och film
• Film

MICHAEL WILLIAMS is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Southampton, UK. He is author of Ivor Novello: Screen Idol, and is co-editor of British Silent Cinema and the Great War published by Palgrave Macmillan. He has also written on stardom; film and antiquity, British cinema; landscape, sexuality and the heritage film.

'Williams' book is exemplary in its pursuit of illuminating parallels between the contemporary gods/goddesses and their classical antecedents. The particular period post-WW1 with its emphasis on heroes and broken men, on loss and celebration, on the marble memorialising of real-life heroes as compared with the potency of the star images caught in a complex mode of evanescence and permanence, is imbued with both poignancy for what is lost and the exhilaration of what the 'divinisation' (author's word) of the star phenomenon represents.' - Brian McFarlane, Monash University, Australia 'It must be recognised that the work of Williams brings a unique and thorough perspective to the phenomenon of the deification of the star, especially in Hollywood, and as such, it really is worth reading.' - Pierre Ve'ronneau, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

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