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

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (404 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43658
• Soggetto topico: Epic films - History and criticism; History in motion pictures
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BurgoyneRobert <1949->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; contents; illustrations; acknowledgments; introduction; part one: spectacle; one: "this is sparta!": the reinvention of epic in zack snyder's 300; two: "philip never saw babylon": 360-degree vision and the historical epic in the digital era; three: heroic chivalry, heroic sacrifice: "martial art house" as epic cinema; four: bare life and sovereignty in gladiator; part two: center and periphery; five: "rise of the rest": globalizing epic cinema; six: sign of the times: the semiotics of time and event in sirk's sign of the pagan. ; seven: the fall of the roman empire: on space and allegoryeight: "an italianmade spectacle film dubbed in english": cultural distinctions, national cinema, and the critical reception of the postwar historical epic; nine: red cliff: the chinese-language epic and diasporic chinese spectators; part three: remembering the nation; ten: passing through nightmares: cecil b. demille's the plainsman and epic discourse in new deal america; eleven: epos indigenized: the new zealand wars films from rudall hayward to vincent ward; part four: the family epic ; twelve: epic melodrama, or cine-maps of the global souththirteen: "black blood": there will be blood; part five: the body in the epic; fourteen: the monstrous epic: deciphering mel gibson's: the passion of the christ; fifteen: diegetic masculinities: reading the black body in epic cinema; contributors; filmography; index
• Sommario/riassunto: With the recent release of spectacular blockbuster films from Gladiator to The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the epic has once again become a major form in contemporary cinema. This new volume in the AFI Film Readers series explores the rebirth of the epic film genre in the contemporary period, a period marked by heightened and conflicting appeals to national, ethnic, and religious belonging.The original essays in this volume explore the tension between the evolving global context of film production and reception and the particular provenance of the epic as an expression.
• Titolo autorizzato: The epic film in world culture
• ISBN: 1-135-85534-X; 1-135-85535-8; 1-282-78242-8; 9786612782428; 0-203-92747-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459882203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: AFI film readers.