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Responses to Oliver Stone's ""Alexander - Film, History, and Cultural Studies (Paperback)
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Responses to Oliver Stone's ""Alexander - Film, History, and Cultural Studies (Paperback)
Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics
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The charismatic Alexander the Great of Macedon (356-323 B.C.E.) was
one of the most successful military commanders in history,
conquering Asia Minor, Egypt, Persia, central Asia, and the lands
beyond as far as Pakistan and India. Alexander has been, over the
course of two millennia since his death at the age of thirty-two,
the central figure in histories, legends, songs, novels,
biographies, and, most recently, films. In 2004 director Oliver
Stone's epic film ""Alexander"" generated a renewed interest in
Alexander the Great and his companions, surroundings, and
accomplishments, but the critical response to the film offers a
fascinating lesson in the contentious dialogue between
historiography and modern entertainment. This volume brings
together an intriguing mix of leading scholars in Macedonian and
Greek history, Persian culture, film studies, classical literature,
and archaeology - including some who were advisors for the film -
and includes an afterword by Oliver Stone discussing the challenges
he faced in putting Alexander's life on the big screen. The
contributors scrutinize Stone's project from its inception and
design to its production and reception, considering such questions
as: Can a film about Alexander (and similar figures from history)
be both entertaining and historically sound? How do the goals of
screenwriters and directors differ from those of historians? How do
Alexander's personal relationships - with his mother Olympias, his
wife Roxane, his lover Hephaistion, and others - affect modern
perceptions of Alexander? Several of the contributors also explore
reasons behind the film's tepid response at the box office and
subsequent controversies.
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