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Return of the Epic Film

Author : Andrew Elliot
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-05
ISBN 10 : 9781474402859
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (42 downloads)

Download Return of the Epic Film PDF Format Full Free by Andrew Elliot and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Speak

Author : Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Release Date : 2011-05-10
ISBN 10 : 9781429997041
Pages : 208 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (997 downloads)

Download Speak PDF Format Full Free by Laurie Halse Anderson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary, groundbreaking novel from Laurie Halse Anderson, with more than 2.5 million copies sold! The first ten lies they tell you in high school. "Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. Her healing process has just begun when she has another violent encounter with him. But this time Melinda fights back, refuses to be silent, and thereby achieves a measure of vindication. In Laurie Halse Anderson's powerful novel, an utterly believable heroine with a bitterly ironic voice delivers a blow to the hypocritical world of high school. She speaks for many a disenfranchised teenager while demonstrating the importance of speaking up for oneself. Speak was a 1999 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature.

New York Magazine

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Publisher :
Release Date : 1982-06-07
ISBN 10 :
Pages : 120 pages
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Download New York Magazine PDF Format Full Free by and published by . This book was released on 1982-06-07 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

New York Magazine

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Release Date : 1982-06-07
ISBN 10 :
Pages : 120 pages
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Download New York Magazine PDF Format Full Free by and published by . This book was released on 1982-06-07 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

The Sea in the Literary Imagination

Author : Ekaterina V. Kobeleva
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2019-01-03
ISBN 10 : 9781527524101
Pages : 404 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (524 downloads)

Download The Sea in the Literary Imagination PDF Format Full Free by Ekaterina V. Kobeleva and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores nautical themes in a variety of literary contexts from multiple cultures. Including contributors from five continents, it emphasizes the universality of human experience with the sea, while focusing on literature that spans a millennium, stretching from medieval romance to the twenty-first-century reimagining of classic literary texts in film. These fresh essays engage in discussions of literature from the UK, the USA, India, Chile, Turkey, Spain, Japan, Colombia, and the Caribbean. Scholars of maritime literature will find the collection interesting for the unique insights it offers on individual literary texts, while general readers will be intrigued by the interconnectedness that it reveals in human experience with the sea.

New York Magazine

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Release Date : 1981-07-20
ISBN 10 :
Pages : 104 pages
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Download New York Magazine PDF Format Full Free by and published by . This book was released on 1981-07-20 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Spaces Mapped and Monstrous

Author : Nick Jones
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-21
ISBN 10 : 9780231550710
Pages : 305 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (55 downloads)

Download Spaces Mapped and Monstrous PDF Format Full Free by Nick Jones and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital 3D has become a core feature of the twenty-first-century visual landscape. Yet 3D cinema is a contradictory media form: producing spaces that are highly regimented and exhaustively detailed, it simultaneously relies upon distortions of vision and space that are inherently strange. Spaces Mapped and Monstrous explores the paradoxical nature of 3D cinema to offer a critical analysis of an inescapable part of contemporary culture. Considering 3D’s distinctive visual qualities and its connections to wider digital systems, Nick Jones situates the production and exhibition of 3D cinema within a web of aesthetic, technological, and historical contexts. He examines 3D’s relationship with computer interfaces, virtual reality, and digital networks as well as tracing its lineage to predigital models of visual organization. Jones emphasizes that 3D is not only a technology used in films but also a tool for producing, controlling, and distorting space within systems of surveillance, corporatization, and militarization. The book features detailed analysis of a wide range of films—including Avatar (2009), Goodbye to Language (2014), Love (2015), and Clash of the Titans (2010)—demonstrating that 3D is not merely an augmentation of 2D cinema but that it has its own unique properties. Spaces Mapped and Monstrous brings together media archaeology, digital theory, and textual analysis to provide a new account of the importance of 3D to visual culture today.

The Hero Reloaded

Author : Rosario López Gregoris
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2020-03-15
ISBN 10 : 9789027261557
Pages : 160 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (261 downloads)

Download The Hero Reloaded PDF Format Full Free by Rosario López Gregoris and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was a hero in Classical Antiquity? Why is it that their characteristics have transcended chronological and cultural barriers while they are still role models in our days? How have their features changed to be embodied by comic superheroes and film? How is their essence vulgarized and turned into a mass consumption product? What has happened with their literary and artistic representation along centuries of elitist Western culture? This book aims at posing these and other questions about heroes, allowing us to open a cultural reflection over the role of the classical world in the present, its meaning in mass media, and the capacity of the Greek and Roman civilizations to dialogue with the modern world. This dialogue offers a glimpse into modern cultural necessities and tendencies which can be seen in several aspects, such as the hero’s vulnerability, the archetype’s banalization, the possibility to extend the heroic essence to individuals in search of identities – vital as well as gender or class identities. In some products (videogames, heavy metal music) our research enables a deeper understanding of the hero’s more obvious characteristics, such as their physical and moral strength. All these tendencies – contemporary and consumable, contradictory with one another, yet vigorous above all – acquire visibility by means of a polyhedral vehicle which is rich in possibilities of rereading and reworking: the Greco-Roman hero. In such a virtual and postmodern world as the one we inhabit, it comes not without surprise that we still resort to an idea like the hero, which is as old as the West.

Plastic Reality

Author : Julie A. Turnock
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2015-02-03
ISBN 10 : 9780231535274
Pages : 384 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (535 downloads)

Download Plastic Reality PDF Format Full Free by Julie A. Turnock and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julie A. Turnock tracks the use and evolution of special effects in 1970s filmmaking, a development as revolutionary to film as the form's transition to sound in the 1920s. Beginning with the classical studio era's early approaches to special effects, she follows the industry's slow build toward the significant advances of the late 1960s and early 1970s, which set the stage for the groundbreaking achievements of 1977. Turnock analyzes the far-reaching impact of the convincing, absorbing, and seemingly unlimited fantasy environments of that year's iconic films, dedicating a major section of her book to the unparalleled innovations of Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. She then traces these films' technological, cultural, and aesthetic influence into the 1980s in the deployment of optical special effects as well as the "not-too-realistic" and hyper-realistic techniques of traditional stop motion and Showscan. She concludes with a critique of special effects practices in the 2000s and their implications for the future of filmmaking and the production and experience of other visual media.

Celebrity Biographies - The Amazing Life of Hugh Jackman and Sam Worthington - Famous Stars

Author : Matt Green
Publisher : Matt Green
Release Date :
ISBN 10 :
Pages : pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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Claw and Fang #2

Author : Michael Kutcher
Publisher : Bluewater Productions
Release Date : 2015-01-01
ISBN 10 : 9781123945942
Pages : 37 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (945 downloads)

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular American 3D Films

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Release Date :
ISBN 10 :
Pages : 2544 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular 2010s Fantasy Films

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Release Date :
ISBN 10 :
Pages : 1870 pages
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The Oxford Handbook of Hesiod

Author : Alexander Loney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-07-26
ISBN 10 : 9780190905361
Pages : 688 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (95 downloads)

Download The Oxford Handbook of Hesiod PDF Format Full Free by Alexander Loney and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together 29 junior and senior scholars to discuss aspects of Hesiod's poetry and its milieu and to explore questions of reception over two and half millennia from shortly after the poems' conception to Twitter hashtags. Rather than an exhaustive study of Hesiodic themes, the Handbook is conceived as a guide through terrain, some familiar, other less charted, examining both Hesiodic craft and later engagements with Hesiod's stories of the gods and moralizing proscriptions of just human behavior. The volume opens with the "Hesiodic Question," to address questions of authorship, historicity, and the nature of composition of Hesiod's two major poems, the Theogony and Works and Days. Subsequent chapters on the archaeology and economic history of archaic Boiotia, Indo-European poetics, and Hesiodic style offer a critical picture of the sorts of questions that have been asked rather than an attempt to resolve debate. Other chapters discuss Hesiod's particular rendering of the supernatural and the performative nature of the Works and Days, as well as competing diachronic and synchronic temporalities and varying portrayals of female in the two poems. The rich story of reception ranges from Solon to comic books. These chapters continue to explore the nature of Hesiod's poetics, as different writers through time single out new aspects of his art less evident to earlier readers. Long before the advent of Christianity, classical writers leveled their criticism at Hesiod's version of polytheism. The relative importance of Hesiod's two major poems across time also tells us a tale of the age receiving the poems. In the past two centuries, artists and writers have come to embrace the Hesiodic stories for themselves for the insight they offer of the human condition but even as old allegory looks quaint to modern eyes new forms of allegory take form.

Celebrity Biographies - The Amazing Life Of Sam Worthington - Famous Actors

Author : Matt Green
Publisher : Matt Green
Release Date :
ISBN 10 :
Pages : pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

Download Celebrity Biographies - The Amazing Life Of Sam Worthington - Famous Actors PDF Format Full Free by Matt Green and published by Matt Green. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam Worthington is undoubtedly well-known as one of his age group’s most creative and blunt gifted artists. This biography in the form of e-book, about the English-born Aussie actor encompasses the story of his struggle and sheer hard work. A wonderful aspect of his individuality was his decision to see every day at work as an opportunity to learn. In keeping with Samuel even if someone’s day is going dreadful one should learn to gain something from it. Grab your biography book now!

New York Magazine

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Release Date : 1981-06-15
ISBN 10 :
Pages : 124 pages
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Blockbusters and the Ancient World

Author : Chris Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-03-21
ISBN 10 : 9781350105027
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (15 downloads)

Download Blockbusters and the Ancient World PDF Format Full Free by Chris Davies and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the Second World War, the Vietnam War and the Western in portraying warfare in the ancient world, as well as discussing the influence of genre hybridisation, narration and reception theory. He questions the extent to which ancient world epics utilise 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.