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The New Peplum: Essays on Sword and Sandal Films and Television Programs Since the 1990s

By Nicholas Diak (Editor)
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By Nicholas Diak (Editor)
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Peplum or "sword-and-sandal" films--an Italian genre of the late 1950s through the 1960s--featured ancient Greek, Roman and Biblical stories with gladiators, mythological monsters and legendary quests. The new wave of historic epics, known as neo-pepla, is distinctly different, embracing new technologies and storytelling techniques to create an immersive experience unattainable in the earlier films.

This collection of new essays explores the neo-peplum phenomenon through a range of topics,...

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