An edition of The epic film in world culture (2010)

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Routledge
Language
English
Pages
391

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Table of Contents

Spectacle. 'This is Sparta!' : the reinvention of the epic in Zach Snyder's 300 / Monica Silveira Cyrino
'Philip never saw Babylon' : 360 degree vision and the historical epic in the digital era / Kirsten Thompson
Heroic chivalry, heroic sacrifice : 'martial arthouse' as epic cinema / Leon Hunt
Bare life and sovereignty in Gladiator / Robert Burgoyne
Center and periphery
Rise of the rest : globalizing epic cinema / Dina Iordanova
Signs of the times : the semiotics of time and event in Sirk's Sign of the pagan / Bettina Bildhauer
The fall of the Roman Empire : on space and allegory / Tom Conley
An Italianmade spectacle film dubbed in English : cultural distinctions, national cinema and the critical reception of the postwar historical epic / Mark Jancovich
Red cliff : the Chinese-language epic and diasporic Chinese spectators / Ruby Cheung
Remembering the nation. Passing through nightmares : Cecil B. DeMille's The plainsman and the epic discourse in New Deal America / Philip Wagner
Epos indigenized : the New Zealand wars film from Rudall Hayward to Vincent Ward / Bruce Babington
The family epic. Epic melodrama, or cine-maps of the global South / Bhaskar Sarkar
Black blood : There will be blood / Anne Gselvik
The body in the epic. The monstrous epic : deciphering Mel Gibson's The passion of the Christ / Alison Griffiths
Reading the black body in epic cinema / Saer Ba.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York
Series
AFI film readers

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.43/658
Library of Congress
PN1995.9.E79 E76 2010, PN1995.9.E79E76 2010, PN1995.9.E79 E76 2011eb, PN1995.9.E79 E76 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
391

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24029039M
Internet Archive
epicfilmworldcul00burg
ISBN 13
9780415990172, 9780415990189, 9780203927472
LCCN
2010001228
OCLC/WorldCat
671749269, 318418797

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