Author: Nicholas Diak
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476631506
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
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.
The New Peplum
Author: Nicholas Diak
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476631506
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
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.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476631506
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
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.
Peplum
Author: Blutch
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590179838
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
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.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590179838
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
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.
Peplum
Author: Blutch
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590179846
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
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.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590179846
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
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.
Clothing for Women; Selection, Design, Construction
Author: Laura Irene Baldt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Heroes Never Die
Author: Barry Atkinson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936168699
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Author Barry Atkinson brings the sadly neglected and misunderstood area of Peplum cinema to vivid life, exploring the genre's origins,
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936168699
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Author Barry Atkinson brings the sadly neglected and misunderstood area of Peplum cinema to vivid life, exploring the genre's origins,
American Cloak and Suit Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cloaks
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cloaks
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
The Saint Pauls Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Saint Pauls
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
A Dictionary of Roman and Greek Antiquities
Author: Anthony Rich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
A Dictionary of Roman and Greek Antiquities with Nearly 2000 Engravings on Wood from Ancient Originals Illustrative of the Industrial Arts and Social Life of the Greeks and Romans
Author: Anthony Rich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description