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The return of the epic film : genre, aesthetics and history in the twenty-first century /
Explores the return of the 'epic' in twenty-first-century cinema. With the success of Gladiator, both critics and scholars enthusiastically announced the return of a genre which had lain dormant for thirty years. However, this return raises important new questions which remain unanswered....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Part I Epics and Ancient History; 2 Sir Ridley Scott and the Rebirth of the Historical Epic; 3 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and America since the Second World War: Some Cinematic Parallels; 4 'There's Nothing So Wrong with a Hollywood Script That a Bunch of Giant CGI Scorpions Can't Solve': Politics, Computer Generated Images and Camp in the Critical Reception of the Post-Gladiator Historical Epics; 5 Popcorn and Circus: An Audience Expects; Part II Epic Aesthetics and Genre.
- 6 Colour in the Epic Film: Alexander and Hero7 Defining the Epic: Medieval and Fantasy Epics; 8 Special Effects, Reality and the New Epic Film; Part III Epic Films and Challenging the Canon; 9 Pass the Ammunition: A Short Etymology of 'Blockbuster'; 10 Epic Stumbling Blocks; 11 The Greatest Epic of the Twenty-First Century?; 12 The Ramayana and Sita in Films and Popular Media: The Repositioning of a Globalised Version; Notes on the Contributors; Index.