Greek Tragedy and Film

COM CI 369

  • Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
  • Historical Consciousness
  • Critical Thinking

Explores Greek tragic myth's afterlife, both directly and obliquely, in cinema and in the modern literature spawning cinema: how certain Greek tragic myths have come to life as film and how "non-mythic" stories have acquired a mythic power in literary and cinematic form. Also offered as CAS CL 325.