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Author: Austen, David
PhysDes: Interview Stills
Subject: HESTON, CHARLTON; EPIC FILMS; PLANET OF THE APES (US, Franklin J. Schaffner, 1967)
Summary: Interview with Charlton Heston about his recent films: "Will Penny", "The War Lord" and "Counterpoint". Reprinted from 'Films and Filming', April 1968.

Call No: 741.931 BLA
Author: Blanshard, Alastair -- Shahabudin, Kim
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
PubDate: 2011
PhysDes: vii, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: EPIC FILMS; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. GREECE; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. ITALY; HISTORICAL FILMS. USA; HISTORICAL FILMS. GREECE; HISTORICAL FILMS. ITALY; CLEOPATRA (US, Cecil B. DeMille, 1934); QUO VADIS (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1951); SPARTACUS (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1960); THREE HUNDRED [300] SPARTANS, THE (US, Rudolph Mate, 1962); JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (UK/US, Don Chaffey, 1963); FELLINI-SATYRICON (IT/FR, Federico Fellini, 1969); MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN (UK, Terry Jones, 1979); HERCULES (US, John Musker & Ron Clements, 1997); GLADIATOR (US, Ridley Scott, 2000)
Summary: Publishers description: 'Through analysis of ten influential films, this book examines the representation of Greece and Rome in popular and art-house cinema. Arranged by cinematic genre and theme, this book offers an accessible introduction to the depiction of antiquity in cinema. Key scenes are discussed and each film is located in its historical context
ISBN: 9780715637241
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2013
Contents: 1. Establishing the conventions: Cleopatra (1934) -- 2. The Roman epics of classical Hollywood: Quo Vadis (1951) -- 3. Peplum traditions: Hercules (1958) -- 4. Roman history on Screen: Spartacus (1960) -- 5. Greek history on screen: The 300 Spartans (1962) -- 6. Myth and the fantastic: Jason and the Argonauts (1963) -- 7. Art Cinema: Fellini-Satyricon (1969) -- 8. Satirising cine-antiquity: Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) -- 9. The Disney version: Hercules (1997) -- 10. The return of the epic? Gladiator (2000)

Call No: 03 SAN REF; REFERENCE SECTION
Author: Santas, Constantine; Wilson, James M.; Colavito, Maria Maddalena; Baker, Djoymi
Source: UK
Place: Plymouth
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
PubDate: 2014
PhysDes: xviii, 694 pages ; 27 cm
Subject: EPIC FILMS; BLOCKBUSTERS
Summary: The Encyclopedia of Epic Films identifies, describes, and analyzes those films that meet the criteria of the epic- sweeping drama, panoramic landscapes, lengthy adventure sequences, and, in many cases, casts of thousands. This volume looks at the wide variety of epics produced over the last century- from the silent spectacles of D. W. Griffith and biblical melodramas of Cecil B. DeMille to the historical dramas of David Lean and rollercoaster thrillers of Steven Spielberg.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9780810882478
Contents: Introduction -- Main entries -- Appendix A: Superhero and franchise epics -- Appendix B: Foreign language epics -- Appendix C: Television mini-series epics -- Appendix D: Who's who among directors and their works

Call No: 740 ELL
Author: Elley, Derek
Place: London Boston
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul
PubDate: 1984
PhysDes: xv, 223 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm
Series: Cinema and society
Subject: EPIC FILMS; FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, THE (US, Anthony Mann, 1964); SOLOMAN AND SHEBA (US, King Vidor, 1959); SPARTACUS (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1960); BEN HUR (US, William Wyler, 1959); CONAN THE BARBARIAN (US, John Milius, 1982)
Notes: Includes indexes; Filmography: p. 167-204; Bibliography: p. 205-206
ISBN: 0710096569; 0710099932 (pbk.)
LON: 2663515

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: EPIC FILMS

Call No: 740 KLA
Author: Klawans, Stuart
Edition: 1999
Place: London
Publisher: Cassell
PubDate: 1999
PhysDes: 188pages : illustrated ; 22 cm
Subject: EPIC FILMS; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; INTOLERANCE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1916); LUDWIG (IT/FR/GW, Luchino Visconti, 1973); STROHEIN, ERICH VON; FOOLISH WIVES (US, Erich Von Stroheim, 1922); GREED (US, Erich von Stroheim, 1925); LANG, FRITZ; METROPOLIS (G, Fritz Lang, 1926); DUEL IN THE SUN (US, King Vidor, 1946); CLEOPATRA (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1963); APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979); FITZCARRALDO (GW, Werner Herzog, 1982); ISHTAR (US, Elaine May, 1987); I AM CUBA [SOY CUBA] (CU/UR, Mihail Kalatozov, 1964)
Notes: A history and theory of going too far, "Film Follies" examines those rare pictures that are both cinematic landmarks and monuments to a director's hybris, from Griffith's "Intolerance" through to Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" and Carax's "Les Amants du Pont-Neuf". Seeming madness and wasteful extravagance, fantastic architecture and the haphazard structure of a musical revue: such are the landmarks of those improbably great (and greatly improbable) films Klawans calls "follies" -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9780304700547

Call No: 64GEN FIL
Author: Grant, Barry Keith, 1947
Edition: 1st ed
Place: Austin
Publisher: University of Texas Press
PubDate: 1995
PhysDes: viii, 581 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: GENRES; WESTERNS; GANGSTER FILMS; FILM NOIR; DISASTER FILMS; EPIC FILMS; HORROR FILMS; MELODRAMA; COMEDIES; TRANSVESTISM; WOMEN IN FILMS; VIETNAM WAR FILMS; MUSICALS; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS; CANADA; AUTEUR THEORY; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; DETECTIVE FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; HISTORICAL FILMS; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; PORNOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; SEMIOLOGY; STRUCTURALISM; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; MICHEAUX, OSCAR; CRONENBERG, DAVID; FORD, JOHN; PENN, ARTHUR; SIRK, DOUGLAS; CAVELL, STANLEY; CHANDLER, RAYMOND; FRYE, NORTHROP; MINNELLI, VINCENTE; TODOROV, TZVETAN; ZOO LA NUIT, UN (CN, Jean-Cluade Lauzon, 1987); SOME LIKE IT HOT (US, Billy Wilder, 1959); SHADOW OF A DOUBT (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1943); BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY, THE (US, Charles Walters, 1949); YENTL (US, Barbara Streisand, 1983); IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934); IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946); MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (US, John Ford, 1946); STAGECOACH (US, John Ford, 1939); SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (US, Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952); THING, THE (US, Christian Nyby, 1951); [TWENTY] 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH (US, Nathan Juran, 1957); VICTOR VICTORIA (UK, Blake Edwards, 1982); WRITTEN ON THE WIND (US, Douglas Sirk, 1956); NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1968); FLY, THE (US, David Cronenberg, 1986); DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN (US, Susan Seidelman, 1985); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974); APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979); CHINATOWN (US, Roman Polanski, 1974)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [495]-559) and index
ISBN: 0292727771 (cloth : alk. paper); 029272778X (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 11563059

Call No: 64GEN NEA
Author: Neale, Steve
Place: London
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2000
PhysDes: viii, 336 p. ; 25 cm
Subject: GENRES; FILM NOIR; MELODRAMA; ACTION FILMS; ADVENTURE FILMS; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS; COMEDIES; CRIME FILMS; DETECTIVE FILMS; EPIC FILMS; FORMALISM; FRONTIERS IN FILMS; GANGSTER FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; HORROR FILMS; MUSICALS; USA; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS; STUDIO SYSTEM; THRILLERS; WAR FILMS; WESTERNS; WOMEN, FILMS FOR; WOMEN IN FILMS; YOUNG PEOPLE IN FILMS; YOUNG PEOPLE, FILMS FOR; TODOROV, TZVETAN; ALTMAN, ROBERT; BASINGER, JEANINE; DOHERTY, THOMAS; SCHATZ, THOMAS
Summary: "Steve Neale provides a comprehensive introduction to genre and Hollywood cinema. He discusses all the major concepts, theories and accounts of Hollywood and genre, an the key genres which theorists and critics have tended to write about - from musicals to horror films, from action-adventure to the western. He also offers detailed revisionist accounts of melodrama and 'film noir', and puts forward new arguments about the place and importance of genre in understanding Hollywood cinema." -- Taken from back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliography and index
ISBN: 0415026059 : No price; 0415026067(pbk.)
LON: 21413450

Call No: 70 ROT
Author: Rotha, Paul
Place: London New York
Publisher: The Studio, ld. The Studio publications, inc
PubDate: [1936]
PhysDes: ix,142 p. : illus. ; 30 cm
Subject: ADVENTURE FILMS; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; COMEDIES; CRIME FILMS; DOCUMENTARIES; INSTRUCTIONAL FILMS; EPIC FILMS; FANTASTIC FILMS; HISTORICAL FILMS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; INSTRUCTIONAL FILMS; MELODRAMA; MUSICALS; ROMANIES IN FILM; SATIRE IN FILMS; WAR FILMS; WESTERNS; BIG PARADE, THE (US, King Vidor, 1925); CHYORTOVO KOLESO (UR, Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg, 1926); [FOUR] HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE, THE (US, Vincente Minnelli, 1962); GENERAL, THE (UK, John Boorman, 1998); GOLD RUSH, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1925); GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, THE (US, Edwin S. Porter, 1903); IRON HORSE, THE (UK, John Ford, 1924); LOST PATROL, THE (US, John Ford, 1934); OUR HOSPITALITY (US, Buster Keaton & John Blystone, 1923); PUBLIC ENEMY, THE (US, William Wellmen, 1931); QUICK MILLIONS (US, Rowland Brown, 1931); SON OF KONG (US, Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933); SPEEDY (US, Ted Wilde, 1928); TABU (US, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1931); TESTAMENT DES DOKTOR MABUSE, DAS (G, Fritz Lang, 1933); WINGS (US, William Wellman, 1927); WOMAN OF PARIS, A (US, Charles Chaplin, 1923)
Notes: Title on two leaves; "Pictorial survey ... some 600 stills ... from all parts of the world."--p. [iv]
LON: 1376838

Call No: 19WAR ROD
Author: Roddick, Nick
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 1983
PhysDes: viii, 332 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Subject: WARNER BROS.; CRIME FILMS; RACIAL ISSUES IN FILMS; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA; HISTORICAL FILMS. USA; EPIC FILMS; LEROY, MERVYN; WALLIS, HAL B.; CURTIZ, MICHAEL; GIBNEY, SHERIDAN; CAPTAIN BLOOD (US, Michael Curtiz, 1935); CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE, THE (US, Michael Curtiz, 1936); DOORWAY TO HELL, THE (US, Archie L. Mayo, 1930); MOBY DICK (US, Lloyd Bacon, 1930); ROARING TWENTIES, THE (US, Raoul Walsh, 1939); SERGEANT YORK (US, Howard Hawks, 1941); ANTHONY ADVERSE (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1936); BLESSED EVENT (US, Roy del Ruth, 1932); G MEN (US, William Keighley, 1935); KNUTE ROCKNE - ALL AMERICAN (US, Lloyd Bacon, 1940); JUAREZ (US, William Dieterle, 1939); LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA, THE (US, William Dieterle, 1937); MASSACRE (US, Alan Crosland, 1933); PUBLIC ENEMY, THE (US, William Wellmen, 1931); SEA WOLF, THE (US, Michael Curtiz, 1941); ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES (US, Michael Curtiz, 1938); BLACK FURY (US, Michael Curtiz, 1934); BLACK LEGION (US, Archie L. Mayo, 1936); CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY (US, Anatole Litvak, 1939); DISRAELI (US, Alfred E. Green, 1929); I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1932)
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 320-326
ISBN: 0851701256 : ª11.95; 0851701264 (pbk.) : ª6.95
LON: 2656181

Author: Whitehall, Richard
PhysDes: Article Review
Subject: ROCCO E I SUOI FRATELLI (IT/FR, Luchino Visconti, 1960); VISCONTI, LUCHINO; EPIC FILMS; NEOREALISM
Summary: Review of Luchino Visconti's "Rocco and His Brothers", reading it as an 'epic' film. Article reproduced from "Motion" No. 6.