The New Peplum

Author : Nicholas Diak
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476631506
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Peplum written by Nicholas Diak and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peplum or “sword-and-sandal” films—an Italian genre of the late 1950s through the 1960s—featured ancient Greek, Roman and Biblical stories with gladiators, mythological monsters and legendary quests. The new wave of historic epics, known as neo-pepla, is distinctly different, embracing new technologies and storytelling techniques to create an immersive experience unattainable in the earlier films. This collection of new essays explores the neo-peplum phenomenon through a range of topics, including comic book adaptations like Hercules, the expansion of genre boundaries in Jupiter Ascending and John Carter, depictions of Romans and slaves in Spartacus, and The Eagle and Centurion as metaphors for America’s involvement in the Iraq War.

Author : Blutch
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590179838
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peplum written by Blutch and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The man known as Blutch is one of the giants of contemporary comics, and Peplum may be his masterpiece: a grand, strange dream of ancient Rome. At the edge of the empire, a gang of bandits discovers the body of a beautiful woman in a cave; she is encased in ice but may still be alive. One of the bandits, bearing a stolen name and with the frozen maiden in tow, makes his way toward Rome—seeking power, or maybe just survival, as the world unravels. Thrilling and hallucinatory, vast in scope yet unnervingly intimate, Peplum weaves together threads from Shakespeare and the Satyricon along with Blutch’s own distinctive vision. His hypnotic storytelling and stark, gorgeous art pull us into one of the great works of graphic literature, translated into English for the first time. This NYRC edition features new English hand-lettering and is an oversized paperback with French flaps and extra-thick paper.

Author : Barry Atkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936168699
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heroes Never Die written by Barry Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Barry Atkinson brings the sadly neglected and misunderstood area of Peplum cinema to vivid life, exploring the genre's origins,

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Delineator written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniël van Helden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351398695
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Researching the Archaeological Past through Imagined Narratives written by Daniël van Helden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeological interpretation is an imaginative act. Stratigraphy and artefacts do not tell us what the past was like; that is the task of the archaeologist. The diverse group of contributors to this volume address the relationship between archaeology and imagination through the medium of historical fiction and fictive techniques, both as consumers and as producers. The fictionalisation of archaeological research is often used to disseminate the results of scholarly or commercial archaeology projects for wider public outreach. Here, instead, the authors focus on the question of what benefits fiction and fictive techniques, as inspiration and method, can bring to the practice of archaeology itself. The contributors, a mix of archaeologists, novelists and other artists, advance a variety of theoretical arguments and examples to advance the case for the value of a reflexive engagement between archaeology and fiction. Themes include the similarities and differences in the motives and methods of archaeologists and novelists, translation, empathy, and the need to humanise the past and diversify archaeological narratives. The authors are sensitive to the epistemological and ethical issues surrounding the influence of fiction on researchers and the incorporation of fictive techniques in their work. Sometimes dismissed as distracting just-so stories, or even as dangerously relativistic narratives, the use of fictive techniques has a long history in archaeological research and examples from the scholarly literature on many varied periods and regions are considered. The volume sets out to bring together examples of these disparate applications and to focus attention on the need for explicit recognition of the problems and possibilities of such approaches, and on the value of further research about them.

Author : Rachel L. Carazo
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648896596
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book “A Hero Will Endure”: Essays at the Twentieth Anniversary of 'Gladiator' written by Rachel L. Carazo and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume adds to previous historical and political studies about 'Gladiator' with essays about the movie’s relation to pop culture and contemporary discourses. It not only relates 'Gladiator' to traditional cinema aspects such as heroism, music, acting, studio culture, and visual effects, but it also connects the film to sports, religion, and the environment, expanding the ways in which the film can be evaluated by modern audiences. The volume can be read by individuals or in classroom settings, especially as a recommended text for students studying the ancient world in film.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1396 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baltimore and Ohio Employes Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
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Download or read book Fabrics, Fancy Goods and Notions written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
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Download or read book United States Economist, and Dry Goods Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lindsay Steenberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350120081
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Are You Not Entertained? written by Lindsay Steenberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglo-American culture is marked by a gladiatorial impulse: a deep cultural fascination in watching men fight each other. The gladiator is an archetypal character embodying this impulse and his brand of violent and eroticised masculinity has become a cultural shorthand that signals a transhistorical version of heroic masculinity. Frequently the gladiator or celebrity fighter - from the amphitheatres of Rome to the octagon of the Ultimate Fighting Championships - is used as a way of insisting that a desire to fight, and to watch men fighting, is simply a part of our human nature. This book traces a cultural interest in stories about gladiators through twentieth and twenty-first-century film, television and videogames.