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  title info:
    title: Blockbusters and the ancient world
    sub title: allegory and warfare in contemporary Hollywood
  name:
    name part: Davies, Chris (Christopher Owen Graham)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Following the release of Ridley Scott's Gladiator in 2000 the ancient world epic has experienced a revival in studio and audience interest. Building on existing scholarship on the Cold War epics of the 1950s-60s, including Ben-Hur, Spartacus and The Robe, this original study explores the current cycle of ancient world epics in cinema within the social and political climate created by September 11th, 2001. Examining films produced against the backdrop of the War on Terror and subsequent invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, this book assesses the relationship between mainstream cinema and American society through depictions of the ancient world, conflict and faith. Davies explores how these films evoke depictions of World War II, the Vietnam War and the Western in portraying warfare in the ancient world, as well discussing the influence of genre hybridization, narration and reception theory. He questions the extent to which ancient world epics utilize allegory, analogy and allusion to parallel past and present in an industry often dictated by market forces. Featuring analysis of Alexander, Troy, 300, Centurion, The Eagle, The Passion of the Christ and more, this book offers new insight on the continued evolution of the ancient world epic in cinema.
  table of contents: War & empire: the ancient world epic, combat films and genre -- The time of Achilles: memory and warfare in Troy -- The dreamers exhaust us: storytellers and the combat film in Alexander -- Is this Sparta: war, freedom and America in 300 -- Body politics: gods, men and monsters in 300 (2007) and Greek mythological epics -- Land of the free, Rome of the brave: faith, torture and imperialism in King Arthur -- American eagle: imperialism in The last legion (2007), Centurion (2010) and The eagle -- Rome on the range: the western in King Arthur (2004), Centurion (2010) and the eagle -- Religious violence: Christianity and extremism in Agora -- Passion project: faith, horror, and propaganda in The passion of the Christ -- The new wave: tales of Hercules and the return of the biblical epic.
  note: Chris Davies.
  note: Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Epic films
    geographic: United States
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Historical films
    geographic: United States
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: War films
    geographic: United States
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: History, Ancient, in motion pictures
  subject:
    topic: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    topic: War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: United States
  classification: PN1995.9.E79 D38 2019
  classification: 791.43/658
  identifier: 9781788313117
  identifier: 1788313119
  identifier: 9781350105010
  identifier: 9781350105027
  identifier: 2018040885
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 181008
    record change date: 20191021074639.0
    record identifier: in00004073466