The Italian Sword-and-Sandal Film
Series: Traditions in World Cinema;
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 30 June 2017
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9780748619849
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A study of the peplum - the Italian sword-and-sandal film of the 1950s.
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This book addresses the Italian sword-and-sandal film, also called the 'peplum', an enormously popular genre of the late 1950s and 1960s in Italy, the United States, and numerous other parts of the world. It still has a large following, as one can discern from the number of DVDs now available of the films, and the number of websites and conventions that have continued to be devoted to the major contributors to the genre: figures such as Steve Reeves, Sergio Leone, Gordon Scott, Lea Massari, and even Anita Ekberg. The book provides a detailed taxonomy of the genre and a discussion of its appeal while also dealing, in non academic language, with the social and political context (often conflicted and contradictory) of the genre both in Italy and the US: the Cold War, the economic boom, youth culture, the return to religion and conservative politics, the imminent upheaval of the 1960s, changing mores around sex and sexual orientation.Key Features*Includes case studies of films such as: The Colossus of Rhodes and The Last Days of Pompei (Leone), Hercules and Hercules Unchained (Francisci), The Giant of Marathon (Tourneur/Bava), Hercules at the Conquest of Atlantis (Cottafavi).*Contrasts the Italian films with American counterparts of the time such as Spartacus (Kubrick), Ben-Hur (Wyler), The Ten Commandments (De Mille), and The Fall of the Roman Empire (Mann).*Accessibly written for a broad audience, from diehard fans to academics.
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