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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: CINEMA Volume 11 THE EPIC FILM This page intentionally left blank THE EPIC FILM Myth and History DEREK ELLEY Firstpublishedin1984 Thiseditionfirstpublishedin2014 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,Oxon,OX144RN SimultaneouslypublishedintheUSAandCanada byRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©1984DerekElley Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedorutilisedinany formorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,nowknownorhereafterinvented, includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinanyinformationstorageorretrievalsystem, withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksorregisteredtrademarks, andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanationwithoutintenttoinfringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:978-0-415-83865-8(Set) eISBN:978-1-315-85201-0(Set) ISBN:978-0-415-72677-1(Volume11) eISBN:978-1-315-85583-7(Volume11) Publisher’sNote Thepublisherhasgonetogreatlengthstoensurethequalityofthisbookbutpointsoutthat someimperfectionsfromtheoriginalmaybeapparent. Disclaimer Thepublisherhasmadeeveryefforttotracecopyrightholdersandwouldwelcome correspondencefromthosetheyhavebeenunabletotrace. of of of of of of commodity commodityc ommocdoimtym odityc omcommomdoitdy ity concentrationc oncentratcioonn cenctorantcioenn tratcioonnc ocenncetrnattrioantio n of exports of exports of expoorft se xports of oefx peoxprtosr ts Cinema and Society General Editor Jeffrey Richards of of commodity of commodity concentration commodity coof necccoxccoeoopofof nnmoenmetcrxcxrmtmepaepsnootnoo ooitofrtdfrdrr t tnaccoiasisttoo ty fty i ionm eo ncxnmecco p oonofoo nmtefrdccor tcxaooisfmte ptny meinoccoooocco cxmootfofordnefpr t nmeanm ineosootcxtcy txfrdmimre peot paisnotononoooty tifrt dfrdor r t taiasinsttty ty iiocco o occooonfnofof nm e enmecxxcmxepmpepnoooonoootfrdrrtfr dtrat istastistty ity o io nn PIccoccooofoo fnme nmecxmcxCepmepnooonoootfrdr ttfrdaris ttaisty tity o io nn ccoccocoooofof o nfmenme ncexcxmmcexpepenpoonoooontofrtdfrdrr t ttraiasristttatsy ty iito o iocconnccooonf oof nm e nmecxcmxepmepnooonoootfrdrtfr dtra istatistty ity o io cconnoof cco nmeoofcx nmemepcxnomooeptfrdnoroo taistfrdtr tty aiisot ty ino n Myth and History Derek Elley Routledge & Kegan Paul London, Boston, Melbourne and Henley First published in 1984 by Routledge & Kegan Paul pic 39 Store Street, London WC1E 7DD, 9 Park Street, Boston, Mass. 02108, USA, 464 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia and Broadway House, Newtown Road, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon RG9 1EN Set in Century 9/llpt by Columns, Reading and printed in Great Britain by St Edmundsbury Press, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk © Derek Elley 1984 No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except for the quotation of brief passages in criticism. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Elley, Derek. The epic film. (Cinema and society) Filmography: p. Bibliography: p. Includes indexes. 1. Historical films - History and criticism. 2. Bible films - History and criticism. 3. Heroes in motion pictures. I. Title. II. Series. PN1995.9.H5E4 1983 791.43WW358 83-9535 ISBN 0-7100-9656-9 Contents General Editor’s Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Author’s Note xv Introduction 1 1 An Epic by Any Other Name 9 2 Epic into Film 13 3 Biblical: The Old Testament 25 4 Biblical: The New Testament 42 5 Greece: Gods and Heroes 52 6 Greece: From Marathon to Alexander 67 7 Rome: From Myth to Republic 76 8 Imperial Rome: Crisis and Civil War 87 9 Imperial Rome: Slaves and Barbarians 103 10 Imperial Rome: Christian Conflicts 115 11 Early Medieval: Norsemen, Saxons, and the Cid 136 12 Epic Aftertastes: Misnomers and Modern Myth 160 Filmography 167 Critical Bibliography 205 Index of Names 207 Index of Film Titles 215

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