The epic film in world culture
By: edited by Robert Burgoyne.
Contributors: Burgoyne, Robert, 1949-
Series: AFI film readers
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9780415990172; 9780415990189; 9780203927472
Subjects: Epic films -- History and criticism; History in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Spectacle. 'This is Sparta!' : the reinvention of the epic in Zach Snyder's 300 / Monica Silveira Cyrino; title: 'Philip never saw Babylon' : 360 degree vision and the historical epic in the digital era / Kirsten Thompson; title: Heroic chivalry, heroic sacrifice : 'martial arthouse' as epic cinema / Leon Hunt; title: Bare life and sovereignty in Gladiator / Robert Burgoyne; title: Center and periphery; title: Rise of the rest : globalizing epic cinema / Dina Iordanova; title: Signs of the times : the semiotics of time and event in Sirk's Sign of the pagan / Bettina Bildhauer; title: The fall of the Roman Empire : on space and allegory / Tom Conley; title: An Italianmade spectacle film dubbed in English : cultural distinctions, national cinema and the critical reception of the postwar historical epic / Mark Jancovich; title: Red cliff : the Chinese-language epic and diasporic Chinese spectators / Ruby Cheung; title: Remembering the nation. Passing through nightmares : Cecil B. DeMille's The plainsman and the epic discourse in New Deal America / Philip Wagner; title: Epos indigenized : the New Zealand wars film from Rudall Hayward to Vincent Ward / Bruce Babington; title: The family epic. Epic melodrama, or cine-maps of the global South / Bhaskar Sarkar; title: Black blood : There will be blood / Anne Gselvik; title: The body in the epic. The monstrous epic : deciphering Mel Gibson's The passion of the Christ / Alison Griffiths; title: Reading the black body in epic cinema / Saer Ba.