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The Epic Film
ISBN-13:
9781317928881
Veröffentl:
2013
Seiten:
248
Autor:
Derek Elley
eBook Typ:
PDF
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
2 - DRM Adobe
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
As Charlton Heston put it: 'There's a temptingly simple definition of the epic film: it's the easiest kind of picture to make badly.' This book goes beyond that definition to show how the film epic has taken up one of the most ancient art-forms and propelled it into the modern world, covered in twentieth-century ambitions, anxieties, hopes and fantasies. This survey of historical epic films dealing with periods up to the end of the Dark Ages looks at epic form and discusses the films by historical period, showing how the cinema reworks history for the changing needs of its audience, much as the ancient mythographers did.
Introduction 1. An Epic by Any Other Name 2. Epic into Film 3. Biblical: The Old Testament 4. Biblical: The New Testament 5. Greece: Gods and Heroes 6. Greece: From Marathon to Alexander 7. Rome: From Myth to Republic 8. Imperial Rome: Crisis and Civil War 9. Imperial Rome: Slaves and Barbarians 10. Imperial Rome: Christian Conflicts 11. Early Medieval: Norsemen, Saxons and the Cid 12. Epic Aftertastes: Misnomers and Modern Myth. Filmography. Critical Bibliography. Index of Names. Index of Film Titles
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