The Shock of the Old: The ‘Documentary’ Fiction Film Moment with COVID-19 Djoymi Baker July 2020 Cinema in the Age of COVID The current pandemic has not only prompted revived interest in viral dystopian films, but also inflects the way we engage with even the most mundane filmic images. David Edelstein reflects, “the other day I swe...
“Despised and disparaged”: Reconsidering the Epic: The Epic in Film: From Myth to Blockbuster by Constantine Santas and Hollywood’s Ancient Worlds by Jeffrey Richards Djoymi Baker April 2009 Book Reviews Few film genres have been so critically despised and disparaged by film critics as the Ancient World epic. Serious, whole-hearted appreciations of such films in the press have been rare. Ridicule, impatience an...
“The Illusion of Magnitude”: Adapting the Epic from Film to Television Djoymi Baker November 2006 Film & History Conference Papers When Giuseppe de Liguoro’s Homer’s Odyssey (1910) was released in the U.S. in 1912, a review in The Moving Picture World praised it for beginning “a new epoch in the history of the motion picture as a facto...
