Offering more than 8,500 listings, including full coverage of great foreign films, a total resource for film reviews contains all of the information most sought after for films, including their availability, awards information, directors index, and much more. Original. 12,000 first printing.

The Variety Movie Guide 1999

Humor & Entertainment

Elley, Derek

Movies

Perigee Trade

Gathers reviews for more than eight thousand films, and lists casts and credits for each film.

Variety Movie Guide 2000

As Charlton Heston put it: ‘There’s a temptingly simple definition of the epic film: it’s the easiest kind of picture to make badly.’ This book goes beyond that definition to show how the film epic has taken up one of the most ancient art-forms and propelled it into the modern world, covered in twentieth-century ambitions, anxieties, hopes and fantasies. This survey of historical epic films dealing with periods up to the end of the Dark Ages looks at epic form and discusses the films by historical period, showing how the cinema reworks history for the changing needs of its audience, much as the ancient mythographers did.  The form’s main aim has always been to entertain, and Derek Elley reminds us of the glee with which many epic films have worn their label, and of the sheer fun of the genre. He shows the many levels on which these films can work, from the most popular to the specialist, each providing a considerable source of enjoyment. For instance, spectacle, the genre’s most characteristic trademark, is merely the cinema’s own transformation of the literary epic’s taste for the grandiose. Dramatically it can serve many purposes: as a resolution of personal tensions (the chariot race in Ben-Hur), of monotheism vs idolatry (Solomon and Sheba), or of the triumph of a religious code (The Ten Commandments). Although to many people Epic equals Hollywood, throughout the book Elley stresses debt to the Italian epics, which often explored areas of history with which Hollywood could never have found sympathy. Originally published 1984.

The Epic Film: Myth and History

Reference

Routledge

Offering more than 8,500 listings, a handy pocket resource for film reviews contains all of the information most sought after for films, including their availability, awards information, directors index, cast and crew information, and more. Original.

The Variety Portable Movie Guide

BERKLEY

Offering more than 8,700 listings, including full coverage of great foreign films, a total resource for film reviews contains all of the information most sought after for films, including their availability, awards information, directors index, and much more, accompanied by lists of Academy Award no

Variety Portable Movie Guide

The " Variety" Movie Guide

ATTENBOROUGH, Richard

Hamlyn

The " Variety" Movie Guide: 1993 Edition

Discusses American and Italian movies based on stories from the Bible and history and mythology of ancient Greece, Rome, and medieval Europe

The Epic Film: Myth and History (Cinema & Society)

Routledge& Kegan Paul

The Epic Film

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

The Epic Film (Routledge Library Editions: Cinema)

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