The New Peplum

Author : Nicholas Diak
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476631509

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The New Peplum by Nicholas Diak Pdf

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
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781590179833

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Peplum by Blutch Pdf

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 : Rachel L. Carazo
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781648896590

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“A Hero Will Endure”: Essays at the Twentieth Anniversary of 'Gladiator' by Rachel L. Carazo Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : London (England)
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000002830

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The Illustrated London News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jane Thomas (née Pinhorn)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555043818

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The London and Paris ladies' magazine of fashion, ed. by mrs. Edward Thomas by Jane Thomas (née Pinhorn) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015074624670

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Arthur's Home Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2891851

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Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Louis Antoine Godey,Sarah Josepha Buell Hale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Costume
ISBN : PSU:000020202255

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Godey's Lady's Book by Louis Antoine Godey,Sarah Josepha Buell Hale Pdf

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Author : Ruby Blondell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780691229645

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Helen of Troy in Hollywood by Ruby Blondell Pdf

How a legendary woman from classical antiquity has come to embody the threat of transcendent beauty in movies and TV Helen of Troy in Hollywood examines the figure of the mythic Helen in film and television, showing how storytellers from different Hollywood eras have used Helen to grapple with the problems and dynamics of gender and idealized femininity. Paying careful attention to how the image of Helen is embodied by the actors who have portrayed her, Ruby Blondell provides close readings of such works as Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy and the Star Trek episode “Elaan of Troyius,” going beyond contextualization to lead the reader through a fundamental rethinking of how we understand and interpret the classic tradition. A luminous work of scholarship by one of today’s leading classicists, Helen of Troy in Hollywood highlights the importance of ancient myths not as timeless stories frozen in the past but as lenses through which to view our own artistic, cultural, and political moment in a new light. This incisive book demonstrates how, whether as the hero of these screen adaptations or as a peripheral character in male-dominated adventures, the mythic Helen has become symbolic of the perceived dangers of superhuman beauty and transgressive erotic agency.

Author : Ross Clare
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781350157217

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Ancient Greece and Rome in Videogames by Ross Clare Pdf

This volume presents an original framework for the study of video games that use visual materials and narrative conventions from ancient Greece and Rome. It focuses on the culturally rich continuum of ancient Greek and Roman games, treating them not just as representations, but as functional interactive products that require the player to interpret, communicate with and alter them. Tracking the movement of such concepts across different media, the study builds an interconnected picture of antiquity in video games within a wider transmedial environment. Ancient Greece and Rome in Videogames presents a wide array of games from several different genres, ranging from the blood-spilling violence of god-killing and gladiatorial combat to meticulous strategizing over virtual Roman Empires and often bizarre adventures in pseudo-ancient places. Readers encounter instances in which players become intimately engaged with the “epic mode” of spectacle in God of War, moments of negotiation with colonised lands in Rome: Total War and Imperium Romanum, and multi-layered narratives rich with ancient traditions in games such as Eleusis and Salammbo. The case study approach draws on close analysis of outstanding examples of the genre to uncover how both representation and gameplay function in such “ancient games”.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951002799083R

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Town Crier by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jennifer Mara DeSilva
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429560309

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The Borgia Family by Jennifer Mara DeSilva Pdf

The Borgia Family: Rumor and Representation explores the historical and cultural structures that underpin the early modern Borgia family, their notoriety, and persistence and reinvention in the popular imagination. The book balances studies focusing on early modern observations of the Borgias and studies deconstructing later incarnations on the stage, on the page, on the street, and on the screen. It reveals how contemporary observers, later authors and artists, and generations of historians reinforced and perpetuated both rumor and reputation, ultimately contributing to the Borgia Black Legend and its representations. Focused on the deeds and posthumous reputations of Pope Alexander VI and his children, Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia, the volume charts the choices made by the family and contextualizes them amid contemporary expectations and reactions. Extending beyond their deaths, it also investigates how the Borgias became emblems of anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish criticism in the later early modern period and their residing reputation as the best and worst of the Renaissance. Exploring a spectrum of traditional and modern media, The Borgia Family contextualizes both Borgia deeds and their modern representations to analyze the family’s continuing history and meaning in the twenty-first century. It will be of great interest to researchers and students working on interdisciplinary aspects of the Renaissance and early modern Italy.

Author : Lindsay Steenberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350120082

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Are You Not Entertained? by Lindsay Steenberg Pdf

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.

Author : Mrs. Henry Peterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Clothing and dress
ISBN : UOM:39015068484438

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The Lady's Friend by Mrs. Henry Peterson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1324 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Home economics
ISBN : MINN:31951000597549B

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Good Housekeeping by Anonim Pdf