{"id":750,"date":"2020-11-13T03:41:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T03:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/?p=750"},"modified":"2020-11-13T03:41:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T03:41:30","slug":"assignment-for-thursday-11-19-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/uncategorized\/assignment-for-thursday-11-19-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment for Thursday, 11.19.20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Cinemythologists,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, November 19, our unit on the Trojan War concludes. 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\/3C88DEBD94479A36?referrer=direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">O Brother, Where Art Thou?<\/a><\/em> (Ethan and Joel Coen, 2000)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Streaming on Swank Digital Campus. Take notes as you see fit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Coens have notoriously claimed that they did NOT consult Homer closely when making this film. We can argue about whether or not we believe this claim. Regardless, <em>O Brother<\/em> offers a somewhat different approach to adapting classical myth: a subterranean approach, some would call it, in which the story world is set outside antiquity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>!! CONTENT ADVISORY !! The film features a blackface &#8220;gag&#8221; as the protagonists interrupt a KKK rally; this, in turn, throws the film&#8217;s racial politics into sharp relief. One issue we&#8217;ll need to discuss is the place of so-called Classical Heritage outside of white, patriarchal systems.<\/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>Siegel, Janice. 2007. &#8220;The Coens&#8217;<em> O Brother, Where Art Thou?<\/em> and Homer&#8217;s<em> Odyssey<\/em>.&#8221; <em>Mousein<\/em> 7: 213\u201345. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This exhaustive discussion of the film&#8217;s resonances with Homer&#8217;s epic ought to get us started, and then some. (Fun fact: Dr. Siegel is my co-author on that long-delayed myth on screen textbook I&#8217;m writing.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/09\/25\/opinion\/blackface-tv-movies-race.html\" target=\"_blank\">Harris, Aisha. 2020. &#8220;A Brief Guide to 21st-Century Blackface.&#8221; <em>The New York Times<\/em>. September 20. www.nytimes.com<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In this interactive essay (perhaps best viewed on a laptop), Harris provides a taxonomy on blackface in contemporary screen media. Today&#8217;s film receives discussion, and that discussion might help us come to terms with the &#8220;accidental&#8221; blackface scene (Harris&#8217; term) in <em>O Brother<\/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\">SEQUENCES<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Huntley, Pettit, Whatley.<\/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, November 19, our unit on the Trojan War concludes. Please do the following. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Ethan and Joel Coen, 2000) Streaming on Swank Digital Campus. Take notes as you see fit. The Coens have notoriously claimed that they did NOT consult Homer closely when making this film. We can argue &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/uncategorized\/assignment-for-thursday-11-19-20\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Assignment for Thursday, 11.19.20&#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":[5,160,138,159,161,157,137],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-assignments","tag-blackface","tag-homer","tag-o-brother-where-art-thou-2000","tag-subterranean-adaptations","tag-the-odyssey","tag-trojan-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","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=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}