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1 online resource (404 pages) |
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AFI Film Readers |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; contents; illustrations; acknowledgments; introduction; part one: spectacle; one: "this is sparta!": the reinvention of epic in zack snyder's 300; two: "philip never saw babylon": 360-degree vision and the historical epic in the digital era; three: heroic chivalry, heroic sacrifice: "martial arthouse" as epic cinema; four: bare life and sovereignty in gladiator; part two: center and periphery; five: "rise of the rest": globalizing epic cinema; six: sign of the times: the semiotics of time and event in sirk's sign of the pagan |
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seven: the fall of the roman empire: on space and allegory eight: "an italian made spectacle film dubbed in english": cultural distinctions, national cinema, and the critical reception of the postwar historical epic; nine: red cliff: the chinese-language epic and diasporic chinese spectators; part three: remembering the nation; ten: passing through nightmares: cecil b. demille's the plainsman and epic discourse in new deal america; eleven: epos Indigen |
| Summary |
With the recent release of spectacular blockbuster films from Gladiator to The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the epic has once again become a major form in contemporary cinema. The orginal essays in this volume explore the tension between the evolving global context of film production and reception and the particular provenance of the epic as an expression of national mythology and aspirations, challenging our understanding of epics produced in the present as well as our perception of epic films from the past. Contributors explore new critical approaches to contemporary as well as older epic film |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Epic films -- History and criticism
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History in motion pictures.
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Epic films
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History in motion pictures
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203927472 |
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0203927478 |
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