The New Peplum: Essays on Sword and Sandal Films and Television Programs Since the 1990s by Djoymi Baker, Kevin Flanagan, Kevin J. Wetmore Jr., David R. Coon, Nicholas Diak, Valerie Estelle Frankel, Steven L. Sears

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

Djoymi Baker, Kevin Flanagan, Kevin J. Wetmore Jr., David R. Coon, Nicholas Diak, Valerie Estelle Frankel, Steven L. Sears

242 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction essays adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
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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, know as neo-p...

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