Dear Cinemythologists,
On Thursday, November 12, our unit on the Trojan War continues. Please do the following.
VIEWING
- Iphigenia (Michael Cacoyannis, 1977)
Streaming on Swank Digital Campus. Take notes as you see fit. This film is a close adaptation of a tragedy by Euripides — so much so that he should have been credited for the screenplay. In class, we’ll review selections from the play, but I won’t ask you to read it in advance.
ANALYSIS
Bernstein and Padala will conclude our Analysis series. Their sequence selection is in the comments.
READING
- McDonald, Marianne. 2001. “Eye of the Camera, Eye of the Victim: Iphigenia by Euripides and Cacoyannis.” In Winkler, Martin M. Classical Myth & Culture in the Cinema, 72–101. Oxford University Press.
McDonald discusses the use of the camera as a means of enacting Iphigenia’s victimhood.
SEQUENCES
- Graubart, Savage.
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
