Dear Cinemythologists,
On Thursday, September 10, we continue our unit on Perseus on screen. Please do the following.
VIEWING
- Clash of the Titans (Louis Leterrier, 2010)
The film is streaming on Swank Digital Campus. Take notes as you see fit. You might contemplate how this remake responds to the original from the standpoint of narrative, theme, and/or technology.
READING
- Curley, Dan. 2015. “Divine Animation: Clash of the Titans (1981).” In Monica S. Cyrino and Meredith E. Safran, ed. Classical Myth on Screen, 207–17. Palgrave-Macmillan.
Since I’ll be evaluating your writing this semester, it’s only fair that you evaluate some of mine. See what, if anything, my take on animation in the original Clash and its remake lends to your appreciation of either film.
- Tomasso, Vincent. 2015. “The Twilight of Olympus: Deicide and the End of the Greek Gods.” In Monica S. Cyrino and Meredith E. Safran, ed. Classical Myth on Screen, 147–57. Palgrave-Macmillan.
Tomasso’s essay (from the same volume) will get us further along in our ongoing discussion of how modern media wrangles with Greek deities and their immortality. Value added: Tomasso surveys a variety of screen texts from the 1960s onward.
SEQUENCES
- Bernstein, Knepper, Whatley.
Use the comments feature on this post to recommend a sequence to be reviewed and discussed in class.
Recommendations should contain the following:
- A brief description of the sequence.
- Precise starting and ending times (hh:mm:ss — hh:mm:ss).
- A rationale as to why this sequence is worth our time.
DC
