{"id":672,"date":"2020-10-06T23:02:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T23:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/?p=672"},"modified":"2020-10-09T19:29:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T19:29:15","slug":"assignment-for-thursday-10-08-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/uncategorized\/assignment-for-thursday-10-08-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment for Thursday, 10.08.20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Cinemythologists,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, October 8, our unit on Heracles\/Hercules comes to an end. 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><em><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcampus.swankmp.net\/skidmore372731\/watch\/00528C7E8F6CE294?referrer=direct\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/digitalcampus.swankmp.net\/skidmore372731\/watch\/00528C7E8F6CE294?referrer=direct\">(Disney&#8217;s) Hercules<\/a> <\/em>(John Musker &amp; Ron Clements, 1997)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Streaming on Swank Digital Campus. Take notes as you see fit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>OPTIONAL: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/434080933\/23d5454ddb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Gospel Truth: Animation and Narrative in Disney&#8217;s <em>Hercules<\/em>.<\/a>&#8220;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And I do mean optional. This is a video version of a lecture\/paper I&#8217;ve been working on for a while now. Some of you saw a version of it at a Classics banquet last year. Here I&#8217;m trying to draw comparisons between animation and the ancient epic convention of <em>ekphrasis<\/em>. If nothing else, let it illustrate some possibilities for developing a paper topic.<\/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;The Disney Version: <em>Hercules<\/em>.&#8221; <em>Classics on Screen: Ancient Greece and Rome on Film<\/em>. Chapter 9, 194\u2013215. Bristol Classical Press.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Blanshard and Shahabudin situate Disney&#8217;s animated romp against the peplum traditions established decades earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cThe Musical\u201d &amp;&#8221;Evolution and Transformation of Genre.&#8221; <em>LAM <\/em>Chapter 3, pp. 100\u20135.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s time to check in again with <em>Looking at Movies<\/em>, since in today&#8217;s screen text we have not only a mythological film set in the ancient world but also a musical, per Disney practice. This reading will help us think about genre conventions as well as ways of transcending genre.<\/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>Graubart, Huntley, Raker.<\/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, October 8, our unit on Heracles\/Hercules comes to an end. Please do the following. (Disney&#8217;s) Hercules (John Musker &amp; Ron Clements, 1997) Streaming on Swank Digital Campus. Take notes as you see fit. OPTIONAL: &#8220;The Gospel Truth: Animation and Narrative in Disney&#8217;s Hercules.&#8220; And I do mean optional. This is a video version &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/uncategorized\/assignment-for-thursday-10-08-20\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Assignment for Thursday, 10.08.20&#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":[96,5,124,108,125],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animation","tag-assignments","tag-disneys-hercules-1997","tag-heracles","tag-musicals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","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=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}