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▼a West III, Thomas J. |
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▼a History's Perilous Pleasures: Experiencing Antiquity in the Postwar Hollywood Epic. |
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▼a [S.l.] :
▼b Syracuse University.,
▼c 2018 |
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▼a Ann Arbor :
▼b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,
▼c 2018 |
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▼a 320 p. |
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▼a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A. |
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▼a Advisers: Steven M. Cohan |
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▼a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Syracuse University, 2018. |
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▼a This dissertation focuses on the mid-20th Century historico-biblical epic---a film genre that flourished within Hollywood from 1949 to 1966 and which took as its subject the depiction of the ancient world---and reads this body of films as a mode |
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▼a Chapter one argues that the proliferation of atomic technologies in the postwar period engendered a profound eschatological fear in American culture, a fear reflected in the historico-biblical epic's concern with heroic agency and impotence. Thi |
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▼a Chapter two argues that the advent of widescreen, inaugurated with The Robe (1953), opened up new possibilities in the way in which the epic framed its temporal and embodied appeals and the way in which it sought to provide an escape from the t |
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▼a In chapter three, I shift into a discussion of the use of color in epic films such as Samson and Delilah (1949) and Quo Vadis (1951), arguing that color's sensory address, combined with the genre's emphasis on sexual and material excess, expres |
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▼a Chapter four moves into a discussion of imperial and geopolitical anxieties in later epics such as Cleopatra (1963) and The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964). These films provide a conflicted experience of history, one founded on a form of what I |
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▼a School code: 0659. |
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▼a Film studies. |
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▼a American history. |
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▼a Syracuse University.
▼b English. |
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▼t Dissertation Abstract International |
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▼a Ph.D. |
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▼a 2018 |
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▼a 관리자 |