Introduction: the functions and forms of the sword and sandal film / Michael G. Cornelius
Hercules, politics, and movies / Maria Elena D Amelio
Hero trouble: blood, politics, and kinship in Pasolini's Medea / Kristi M. Wilson
To do or die manfully : performing heteronormativity in recent epic films / Jerry B. Pierce
From maciste to maximus and company: the fragmented hero in the new epic / Andrew B. R. Elliott
Reverent and irreverent violence: in defense of Spartacus, Conan, and Leonidas / John Elia
Civilization- ancient and wicked : historicizing the ideological field of 1980s sword and sandal films / Kevin M. Flanagan
Homer's lies, Brad Pitt's thighs: revisiting the pre-Oedipal mother and the German wartime father in Wolfgang Petersen's Troy / Robert C. Pirro
An enduring logic: Homer, Helen of Troy, and narrative mobility / Larry T. Shillock
By Jupiter's cock! Spartacus: blood and sand, video games, and camp excess / David Simmons
Beefy guys and brawny dolls: He-Man, the Masters of the Universe, and Gay clone culture / Michael G. Cornelius
Developments in peplum filmmaking: Disney's Hercules / Chris Pallant
Hercules diminished? parody, differentiation, and emulation in the Three Stooges meet Hercules / Daniel O'Brien.
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Of muscles and men : essays on the sword and sandal film. ISBN 9780786461622. Published by McFarland in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
