AOQU. Achilles Orlando Quixote Ulysses

AOQU. Achilles Orlando Quixote Ulysses

The Journal AOQU welcomes essays in Italian, English, French or Spanish, exploring the role of the Epic model (as a genre proper or as a register) in different cultures up to the present, in literature and beyond. The Journal, furthermore, hosts monographic issues on...
Feathers of Fire: A Persian Epic

Feathers of Fire: A Persian Epic

Feathers of Fire: A Persian Epic is a cinematic shadow play that features the white-haired Zal from his birth to his love story with Rudabeh, based on the Persian epic Shahnameh (‘The Book of Kings’). Created and directed by Hamid Rahmanian with graphics derived from...
Sita Sings the Blues

Sita Sings the Blues

Sita Sings the Blues This English-language animated film was written, directed, produced and animated by Nina Paley in 2008. It revisits the principle episodes of the Ramayana from Sita’s perspective and weaves together Indian and American culture.