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The epic film in world culture / edited by Robert Burgoyne.

Contributor(s): Burgoyne, Robert, 1949-.
Series: AFI film readers: Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2010Description: xii, 391 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780415990172 (hbk.); 9780415990189 (pbk.); 9780203927472 (ebk.).Subject(s): Epic films -- History and criticism | History in motion picturesDDC classification: 791.43658
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.