Introduction
Section 1: Spectacle
Chapter 1: Monica Silveira Cyrino, "'This is Sparta!' The Reinvention of the Epic in Zach Snyder's 300."
Chapter 2: Kirsten Thompson, "'Philip Never Saw Babylon:' 360 Degree Vision and the Historical Epic in the Digital Era."
Chapter 3: Leon Hunt, "Heroic Chivalry, Heroic Sacrifice: 'Martial Arthouse' as Epic Cinema."
Chapter 4: Robert Burgoyne, "Bare Life and Sovereignty in Gladiator."
Section 2: Center and Periphery
Chapter 5: Dina Iordanova, "'Rise of the Rest:' Globalizing Epic Cinema."
Chapter 6: Bettina Bildhauer, "Signs of the Times: The Semiotics of Time and Event in Sirk's Sign of the Pagan."
Chapter 7: Tom Conley, "The Fall of the Roman Empire: On Space and Allegory."
Chapter 8: Mark Jancovich, "'An Italianmade Spectacle Film Dubbed in English:' Cultural Distinctions, National Cinema and the Critical Reception of the Postwar Historical Epic."
Chapter 9: Ruby Cheung, "Red Cliff: The Chinese-Language Epic and Diasporic Chinese Spectators."
Section 3: Remembering the Nation
Chapter 10: Philip Wagner, "Passing Through Nightmares: Cecil B. DeMille's The Plainsman and the Epic Discourse in New Deal America."
Chapter 11: Bruce Babington, "Epos Indigenized: The New Zealand Wars Film From Rudall Hayward to Vincent Ward."
Section 4: The Family Epic
Chapter 12: Bhaskar Sarkar, in "Epic Melodrama, or Cine-Maps of the Global South."
Chapter 13: Anne Gselvik, "Black Blood: There Will Be Blood."
Section 5: The Body in the Epic
Chapter 14: Alison Griffiths, "The Monstrous Epic: Deciphering Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ."
Chapter 15: Saer Ba, "Reading the Black Body in Epic Cinema."
Biography
Robert Burgoyne is Professor and Chair of Film Studies at the University of St Andrews. His recent publications include Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History, revised and expanded edition (2010), and The Hollywood Historical Film (2008).
