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The epic film in world culture
- Title
- The epic film in world culture / edited by Robert Burgoyne.
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 2011.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Burgoyne, Robert, 1949-
- Description
- xii, 391 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- AFI film readers
- Uniform Title
- AFI film readers.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
- 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 Moana 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 -- Diegetic masculinities: reading the Black body in epic cinema / Saër Maty Ba.
- Call Number
- MFL 10-6413
- ISBN
- 9780415990172 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 0415990173 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9780415990189 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0415990181 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010001228
- OCLC
- YBP 2010001228
- Title
- The epic film in world culture / edited by Robert Burgoyne.
- Imprint
- New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Series
- AFI film readersAFI film readers.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
- Added Author
- Burgoyne, Robert, 1949-
- Research Call Number
- MFL 10-6413