The Return of the Epic Film : Genre, Aesthetics and History in the 21st Century
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0748684026
ISBN-13
9780748684021
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
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Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
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GB
Publication Date
Mar 11th, 2014
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
496 grams
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24.00 x 15.90 x 1.90 cms
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With the success of Gladiator, both critics and scholars enthusiastically announced the return of a genre which had lain dormant for 30 years. Why did the epic come back, and why did it fall out of fashion? This collection adopts a range of interdisciplinary perspectives to explore the epic film in the 21st century.
The Return of the Epic Film offers a fresh way of thinking about a body of films which has dominated our screens for a decade. With contributions from top scholars in the field, the collection adopts a range of interdisciplinary perspectives to explore the epic film in the twenty-first century.
What does the new epic film now look like? How is it classified? Why has it returned?
The success of Gladiator re-launched a genre which had lain dormant for 35 years. The Return of the Epic Film is one of the first books to examine this return as a coherent body of films. Studying a range of films from Gladiator to Clash of the Titans, the various essays question how we define these new epics, their aesthetics, their relationship to history, and who decides which films should be in the canon. Over the course of 11 essays by key figures in the field, the book examines in what ways, why, and how the epic film has returned to our cinemas.
By embracing a range of approaches which take into account the production process, and by questioning the canon of films conventionally accepted as epics, this book will inspire Film Studies students and scholars to rethink the epic film.
The success of Gladiator re-launched a genre which had lain dormant for 35 years. The Return of the Epic Film is one of the first books to examine this return as a coherent body of films. Studying a range of films from Gladiator to Clash of the Titans, the various essays question how we define these new epics, their aesthetics, their relationship to history, and who decides which films should be in the canon. Over the course of 11 essays by key figures in the field, the book examines in what ways, why, and how the epic film has returned to our cinemas.
By embracing a range of approaches which take into account the production process, and by questioning the canon of films conventionally accepted as epics, this book will inspire Film Studies students and scholars to rethink the epic film.
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