The Epic Film in World Culture

Herausgeber: Burgoyne, Robert

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Produktbeschreibung

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 orginal 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 of national mythology and aspirations, challenging our understanding of epics produced in the present as well as our perception of epic films from the past. The contributors will explore new critical approaches to contemporary as well as older epic films, drawing on ideas from cultural studies, historiography, classics, and film studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 741g
• ISBN-13: 9780415990172
• ISBN-10: 0415990173
• Artikelnr.: 29924351

Autorenporträt

Robert Burgoyne is Professor and Chair of Film Studies at the University of St Andrews. His recent publications include Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History, revised and expanded edition (2010), and The Hollywood Historical Film (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Section 1: Spectacle
Chapter 1: Monica Silveira Cyrino, "'This is Sparta!' The Reinvention of
the Epic in Zach Snyder's 300."
Chapter 2: Kirsten Thompson, "'Philip Never Saw Babylon:' 360 Degree Vision
and the Historical Epic in the Digital Era."
Chapter 3: Leon Hunt, "Heroic Chivalry, Heroic Sacrifice: 'Martial
Arthouse' as Epic Cinema."
Chapter 4: Robert Burgoyne, "Bare Life and Sovereignty in Gladiator."
Section 2: Center and Periphery
Chapter 5: Dina Iordanova, "'Rise of the Rest:' Globalizing Epic Cinema."
Chapter 6: Bettina Bildhauer, "Signs of the Times: The Semiotics of Time
and Event in Sirk's Sign of the Pagan."
Chapter 7: Tom Conley, "The Fall of the Roman Empire: On Space and
Allegory."
Chapter 8: Mark Jancovich, "'An Italianmade Spectacle Film Dubbed in
English:' Cultural Distinctions, National Cinema and the Critical Reception
of the Postwar Historical Epic."
Chapter 9: Ruby Cheung, "Red Cliff: The Chinese-Language Epic and Diasporic
Chinese Spectators."
Section 3: Remembering the Nation
Chapter 10: Philip Wagner, "Passing Through Nightmares: Cecil B. DeMille's
The Plainsman and the Epic Discourse in New Deal America."
Chapter 11: Bruce Babington, "Epos Indigenized: The New Zealand Wars
Film From Rudall Hayward to Vincent Ward."
Section 4: The Family Epic
Chapter 12: Bhaskar Sarkar, in "Epic Melodrama, or Cine-Maps of the Global
South."
Chapter 13: Anne Gselvik, "Black Blood: There Will Be Blood."
Section 5: The Body in the Epic
Chapter 14: Alison Griffiths, "The Monstrous Epic: Deciphering Mel Gibson's
The Passion of the Christ."
Chapter 15: Saer Ba, "Reading the Black Body in Epic Cinema."