The epic film in world culture /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
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2011.
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| Series: | AFI film readers.
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Table of 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.