The epic film in world culture /
edited by Robert Burgoyne.
- New York : Routledge, 2010.
- xii, 391 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- AFI film readers .
- AFI film readers .
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.