Helen of Troy in Hollywood / / / Ruby Blondell.
How a legendary woman from classical antiquity has come to embody the threat of transcendent beauty in movies and TVHelen of Troy in Hollywood examines the figure of the mythic Helen in film and television, showing how storytellers from different Hollywood eras have used Helen to grapple with the pr...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : : Princeton University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Martin Classical Lectures ; ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 8 page color insert. 50 b/w illus. 1 table. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I: Early Hollywood
- 1. Olympus Moves to Hollywood
- 2. A Brilliant Gem in a Finely Wrought Setting: The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927)
- Part II: Big Screen Epic
- 3. An Anticheesecake Doll: Helen of Troy (1956)
- 4. Helen of Abercrombie & Fitch: Troy (2004)
- Part III: Television
- 5. The Plural of Helen of Troy: Twentieth-Century Telefantasy
- 6. Not the BBC Version: Helen of Troy (2003)
- Bibliography
- Image Credits
- Index