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1 online resource (x, 224 pages) : illustrations |
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Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Part I Epics and Ancient History; 2 Sir Ridley Scott and the Rebirth of the Historical Epic; 3 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and America since the Second World War: Some Cinematic Parallels; 4 'There's Nothing So Wrong with a Hollywood Script That a Bunch of Giant CGI Scorpions Can't Solve': Politics, Computer Generated Images and Camp in the Critical Reception of the Post-Gladiator Historical Epics; 5 Popcorn and Circus: An Audience Expects; Part II Epic Aesthetics and Genre |
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6 Colour in the Epic Film: Alexander and Hero7 Defining the Epic: Medieval and Fantasy Epics; 8 Special Effects, Reality and the New Epic Film; Part III Epic Films and Challenging the Canon; 9 Pass the Ammunition: A Short Etymology of 'Blockbuster'; 10 Epic Stumbling Blocks; 11 The Greatest Epic of the Twenty-First Century?; 12 The Ramayana and Sita in Films and Popular Media: The Repositioning of a Globalised Version; Notes on the Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Explores the return of the 'epic' in twenty-first-century cinema. With the success of Gladiator, both critics and scholars enthusiastically announced the return of a genre which had lain dormant for thirty years. However, this return raises important new questions which remain unanswered. Why did the epic come back, and why did it fall out of fashion? Are these the same kinds of epics as the 1950s and 60s, or are there aesthetic differences? Can we treat Kingdom of Heaven, 300 and Thor indiscriminately as one genre? Are non-Western histories like Hero and Mongol epics, too? Finally, what precisely do we mean when we talk about the return of the epic film, and why are they back? The Return of the Epic Film offers a fresh way of thinking about a body of films which has dominated our screens for a decade. With contributions from top scholars in the field, the collection adopts a range of interdisciplinary perspectives to explore the epic film in the twenty-first century |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Epic films -- History and criticism
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Popular culture.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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Epic films
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Epischer Film
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Epic films
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Epic films.
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Films épiques.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Elliot, Andrew B. R., editor.
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| ISBN |
9780748684038 |
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0748684034 |
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9780748697069 |
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0748697063 |
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1474402852 |
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9781474402859 |
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