Return of the Epic Film: Genre, Aesthetics and History in the 21st Century

Return of the Epic Film: Genre, Aesthetics and History in the 21st Century
ISBN-10
1474402852
ISBN-13
9781474402859
Category
Reference
Pages
224
Language
English
Published
2015-03-05
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Author
Andrew Elliot

Description

With the success of Gladiator, both critics and scholars enthusiastically announced the return of a genre which had lain dormant for thirty years. However, this return raises important new questions which remain unanswered. Why did the epic come back, and why did it fall out of fashion? Are these the same kinds of epics as the 1950s and 60s, or are there aesthetic differences? Can we treat Kingdom of Heaven, 300 and Thor indiscriminately as one genre? Are non-Western histories like Hero and Mongol epics, too? Finally, what precisely do we mean when we talk about the return of the epic film, and why are they back? 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.

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