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Pages: 241
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-03-05 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 224
Pages: 224
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher:
Explores the return of the 'epic' in twenty-first-century cinema. With the success of Gladiator, both critics and scholars enthusiastically announced the return
Language: en
Pages: 713
Pages: 713
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-21 - Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Soon after film came into existence, the term epic was used to describe productions that were lengthy, spectacular, live with action, and often filmed in exotic
Language: en
Pages: 504
Pages: 504
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-13 - Publisher: Routledge
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 contemp
Language: en
Pages: 241
Pages: 241
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Scarecrow Press
In this volume, David Lean's now undervalued epics--The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter, and A Passage to India--a