{"id":636,"date":"2020-09-17T15:10:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T15:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/?p=636"},"modified":"2020-09-29T01:23:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T01:23:07","slug":"assignment-for-thursday-09-24-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/uncategorized\/assignment-for-thursday-09-24-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment for Thursday, 09.24.20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Cinemythologists,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, September 24, our unit on Heracles\/Hercules continues. Please do the following.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">VIEWING<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/video\/detail\/amzn1.dv.gti.a6aa6a00-af4b-fed5-ff58-4eb26a5d01b7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Hercules<\/em><\/a><em> (Le fatiche di Ercole)<\/em> (Pietro Francisci, 1958)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Streaming on Amazon Prime. Take notes as you see fit. The film is dubbed from the Italian, so there will be a disconnect between the characters&#8217; mouths and their voices. (And that is not the voice of Steve Reeves under any circumstances.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you will have learned from our introduction to <em>peplum<\/em>, this film is epoch-making in many ways \u2014 difficult as it might be to appreciate them in the 21st century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-black-background-color has-black-color is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">ANALYSIS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of epoch-making, our <a href=\"http:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/analysis\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"316\">Analysis<\/a> enterprise gets underway today with Graubart and Ricci<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span> presenting their video on a sequence from <em>Hercules<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-black-background-color has-black-color is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">READING<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Blanshard, Alastair J. L. and Kim Shahabudin. 2011. &#8220;Peplum Traditions: <em>Hercules<\/em>.&#8221; <em>Classics on Screen: Ancient Greece and Rome on Film<\/em>. Chapter 3, 58\u201376. Bristol Classical Press.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Blanshard and Shahabudin take our ongoing discussion on <em>peplum<\/em> a step further by focusing on the place of <em>Hercules<\/em> in the cinematic tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-black-background-color has-black-color is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">SEQUENCES<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Jefferson, Pettit.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Use the comments feature on this post to recommend a sequence to be reviewed and discussed in class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recommendations should contain the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A brief description of the sequence.<\/li><li>Precise starting and ending times (hh:mm:ss \u2014 hh:mm:ss).<\/li><li>A rationale as to why this sequence is worth our time.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>DC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, September 24, our unit on Heracles\/Hercules continues. Please do the following. Hercules (Le fatiche di Ercole) (Pietro Francisci, 1958) Streaming on Amazon Prime. Take notes as you see fit. The film is dubbed from the Italian, so there will be a disconnect between the characters&#8217; mouths and their voices. (And that is not &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/uncategorized\/assignment-for-thursday-09-24-20\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Assignment for Thursday, 09.24.20&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[114,5,108,112,113,103],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-analysis","tag-assignments","tag-heracles","tag-hercules-1958","tag-le-fatiche-di-ercole-1958","tag-peplum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}