دانلود کتاب Blockbusters and the Ancient World: Allegory and Warfare in Contemporary Hollywood

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Title Page\nCopyright Page\nContents\nList of Illustrations\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction\n A History of Meaning\n Defining the Epic\n Notes\nChapter 1: War and Empire: The Ancient World Epic, Combat Films and Genre\n An American Empire?\n The Epic and Empire\n The Combat Film\n Notes\nChapter 2: The Time of Achilles: Memory and Warfare in Troy (2004)\n Adaptation\n The Combat Film\n The Storyteller\n Notes\nChapter 3: The Dreamers Exhaust Us: Storytellers and the Combat Film in Alexander (2004)\n Prometheus Unbound\n Alexander as Allegory\n The Combat Film\n The Unreliable Narrator\n Notes\nChapter 4: Is This Sparta?: War, Freedom and America in 300 (2007)\n The Spartan Mirage\n Analogy, Allegory or Propaganda\n The Combat Film\n Notes\nChapter 5: Body Politics: Gods, Men and Monsters in 300 (2007) and Greek Mythological Epics\n Men and Monsters\n The Unreliable Narrator\n Gods and Monsters\n Notes\nChapter 6: Land of the Free, Rome of the Brave: Faith, Torture and Imperialism in King Arthur (2004)\n Roman Britain\n King Arthur\n Torture\n Notes\nChapter 7: American Eagle: Imperialism in The Last Legion (2007), Centurion (2010) and The Eagle (2011)\n Centurion\n The Eagle\n The Last Legion\n Notes\nChapter 8: Rome on the Range: The Western in King Arthur (2004), Centurion (2010) and The Eagle (2011)\n The Western\n King Arthur\n Centurion\n The Eagle\n Notes\nChapter 9: Religious Violence: Christianity and Extremism in Agora (2009)\n Religious Conflict\n Agora\n Notes\nChapter 10: Passion Project: Faith, Horror and Propaganda in The Passion of the Christ (2004)\n Directing Traffic\n ‘Torture Porn’\n Supernatural\n The Passion as Propaganda\n Notes\nChapter 11: The New Wave: Tales of Hercules and the Return of the Biblical Epic\n The Legend of Hercules\n 300: Rise of an Empire\n Pompeii\n Hercules\n Noah\n Exodus: Gods and Kings\n Risen\n Ben-Hur\n Notes\nConclusion\n Notes\nBibliography\nFilmography\n Works Referenced\nIndex