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The Epic Film in World Culture : Epic Film in World Culture.
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. The orginal essays in this volume explore the tension between the evolving global context of film production and reception and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2010.
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| Colección: | AFI Film Readers
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 arthouse" 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 allegory eight: "an italian made 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 Indigen.