The Epic Film: Myth and History

張貼日期：Oct 27, 2009 12:20:52 PM

by Derek Elley

London：Routledge Kegan Paul Press, 2007

Recommended by Mr. Sheng-Hua Hsu

Derek Elley shows how the film epic has taken up one of the most ancient art-forms and propelled it into the present day, covered in twentieth-century ambitions, anxieties, hopes and fantasies. He reminds us of the glee with which many epic films have worn their table, and of the sheer fun of the genre. His entertaining survey of historical epic, dealing with periods up to the end of the Dark Ages, looks at epic form in the cinema as reinterpreted from literary epic form.