The Anxious Epic

In the wake of the release in America of Oliver Stone's new film `Alexander'. Here is a review from the Boston Globe examining cinema's take on empire. Click on the title to link. - PolPop.

By By J.D. Connor | November 28, 2004

WRITING ABOUT the Romans seen on film 50 years ago, the French theorist Roland Barthes saw in their sweaty brows the mythology of "man thinking." These days, however, our Greeks and Romans do not think, they remind. They remind themselves of their destiny. They remind their followers of the glory they might win. And their stories remind us a great deal of our current empire, and its strategic uncertainties. . .