This course explores Greek tragic myth's afterlife in cinema: how certain Greek tragic myths have come to life as film and also how certain "non- mythic" stories have acquired a mythic power in cinematic form. It looks at both Greek tragedy and cinema---each one through the lens of the other---as embodying in some essential way a habit of mind, the human search for meaning, that takes the form of seeing in darkness. In cinema, this Greek metaphor of tragic vision has become the medium. Also offered as CAS CL 325.