02054cam a2200217 a 4500 100119s2010 nyua b 001 0 eng 9780415990189 SDU PN1995 E64 2010 The epic film in world culture / edited by Robert Burgoyne. New York : Routledge, 2010. 391 p. : ill. Spectacle. 'This is Sparta!': the reinvention of the epic in Zach Snyder's 300 / Monica Silveira Cyrino -- 'Philip never saw Babylon': 360 degree vision and the historical epic in the digital era / Kirsten Thompson -- Heroic chivalry, heroic sacrifice: 'martial arthouse' as epic cinema / Leon Hunt -- -- Bare life and sovereignty in Gladiator / Robert Burgoyne -- Center and periphery -- Rise of the rest: globalizing epic cinema / Dina Iordanova -- Signs of the times: the semiotics of time and event in Sirk's Sign of the pagan / Bettina Bildhauer -- The fall of the Roman Empire: on space and allegory / Tom Conley -- An Italianmade spectacle film dubbed in English: cultural distinctions, national cinema and the critical reception of the postwar historical epic / Mark Jancovich -- Red cliff: the Chinese-language epic and diasporic Chinese spectators / Ruby Cheung -- Remembering the nation. Passing through nightmares: Cecil B. DeMille's The plainsman and the epic discourse in New Deal America / Philip Wagner -- Epos indigenized: the New Zealand wars film from Rudall Hayward to Vincent Ward / Bruce Babington -- The family epic. Epic melodrama, or cine-maps of the global South / Bhaskar Sarkar -- Black blood: There will be blood / Anne Gselvik -- The body in the epic. The monstrous epic: deciphering Mel Gibson's The passion of the Christ / Alison Griffiths -- Reading the black body in epic cinema / Saer Ba. HKBU library YT2025 M09 Epic films History and criticism. 219044 History in motion pictures. 209378 Burgoyne, Robert, 1949- 219045 = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 112338 112338 0 0 lcc 0 PN1995 E64 02010 0 CGB 281144 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-09-08 2 0 PN1995 E64 2010 1000363066 2025-09-08 00:00:00 C.1 2025-09-08 GBE