Dear Cinemythologists,
On Tuesday, September 29, our unit on Heracles/Hercules continues. Please do the following.
VIEWING
- The Legend of Hercules (Renny Harlin, 2014)
Streaming on Swank Digital Campus. Take notes as you see fit. This is one of two Hercules films from 2014, and we’ll want to see how the peplum traditions established in the mid-20th century carry over into the 21st.
ANALYSIS
Huntley and Savage will continue our Analysis series. Their sequence selection is in the comments.
READING
- O’Brien, Daniel. 2014. “Hercules Rebooted.” Classical Masculinity and the Spectacular Body on Film: The Mighty Sons of Hercules. Chapter 4, 95–99. Palgrave-Macmillan.
O’Brien updates us on Hercules screen texts at the end of the old milennium and into the new, stopping with today’s viewing.
The reading is brief to allow time for you to work on milestone 1 (Thesis) of the Semester Project.
SEQUENCES
- Gross, Raker.
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
