Abysses du péplum : stratégies d’écriture et faux-fuyants critiques autour d’un genre sidérant by Gaspard Delon

“…After more than three decades of interruption, the revival of the Hollywood peplum in the 2000s has left French critics in a quandary. Should one take the genre seriously, grant it a sense of irony or consider it frivolous from the outset, despite his cultural baggage? …”
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“Let the Games Begin!” La figura del gioco distopico nel cinema e nella letteratura fantascientifica by Alberto Boschi

“…Sponsored and encouraged by governments themselves, generally totalitarian and dictatorial in their organization, these challenges play an important role both as an outlet for the most violent instincts of individuals and as means of approval, in the wake of the tradition of fights among gladiators. Moreover, these combats do not necessarily need the presence of an audience to take place, like for instance in Battle Royale (2000) by Kinji Fukasaku, but most of the times they are shaped as shows recorded by multiple cameras, in accordance with the practice of reality shows, like in The Running Man (1987) by Paul Michael Glaser. …”
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