The Return Of The Epic Film: Genre, Aesthetics And History In The 21St Century

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.--Amazon.

• • Author: Andrew B. R. Elliott
• • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• • Publication Date: Mar 05, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 240 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1474402844
• • ISBN-13: 9781474402842