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- Epic films
Entry Genre/Form Term
001 - CONTROL NUMBER
- control field: 32933
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
- control field: DLC
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
- control field: 20250603163931.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS
- fixed length control field: 110505|| anznnbabn |a ana
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
- LC control number: gf2011026225
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
- Original cataloging agency: DLC
- Language of cataloging: eng
- Transcribing agency: DLC
- Subject heading/thesaurus conventions: lcgft
- Modifying agency: WaU
- Modifying agency: DLC
155 ## - HEADING--GENRE/FORM TERM
- Genre/form term: Epic films
455 ## - SEE FROM TRACING--GENRE/FORM TERM
- Genre/form term: Costume spectacles
455 ## - SEE FROM TRACING--GENRE/FORM TERM
- Genre/form term: Epics, Film
455 ## - SEE FROM TRACING--GENRE/FORM TERM
- Genre/form term: Film epics
455 ## - SEE FROM TRACING--GENRE/FORM TERM
- Genre/form term: Heroic films
455 ## - SEE FROM TRACING--GENRE/FORM TERM
- Genre/form term: Monumental films
455 ## - SEE FROM TRACING--GENRE/FORM TERM
- Genre/form term: Monumentalist films
455 ## - SEE FROM TRACING--GENRE/FORM TERM
- Genre/form term: Spectacles (Motion pictures)
455 ## - SEE FROM TRACING--GENRE/FORM TERM
- Genre/form term: Spectaculars (Motion pictures)
555 ## - SEE ALSO FROM TRACING--GENRE/FORM TERM
- Control subfield: g
- Genre/form term: Fiction films
670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND
- Source citation: Yee, M.M. Moving image materials, 1988
- Information found: (Epics; use for fictional works which employ "a cast of thousands" to depict action on a cosmic scale. UF: Costume spectacles, Sandal and spear epics, Spectaculars, Sword and sandal epics)
670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND
- Source citation: Lopez, D. Films by genre, c1993
- Information found: (Epic film, Film epic, Spectacle, Costume picture, Heroic film, Monumental film). Movie epics are usually set in the historical past, but they can also deal with contemporary or even future events. Frequently, though, the setting is antiquity--mythological, biblical, Greek or Roman times--and the film sets, as a rule, are lavish and spectacular)
670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND
- Source citation: Bergan, R. Film isms--, c2011:
- Information found: p. 18 (Monumentalism; narratives in the monumentalist tradition; films on a monumental or epic scale; the 'historical-mythological' genre was born in Italy in the early part of the 20th century; early Italian epics. Key characteristics: big budgets; crowd scenes; historical subjects; large casts and sets; pageantry; wide vistas)
680 ## - PUBLIC GENERAL NOTE
- Explanatory text: Films that employ large casts and lavish sets to depict action on a grand scale.
