CLCS 33800 - The Tragic Vision

Credit Hours: 3.00. “The Tragic Vision” explores the “script” of Hollywood movies as it pertains to the classical literary and performance genre of tragedy, which emerged in Athens in the fifth century BCE. This course is different from CLCS 336, “The Ancient World Onscreen,” in that while CLCS 336 gives an overview of the Greco-Roman periods in films, such as Clash of the Titans, Troy, or Gladiator, CLCS 338 focuses on “tragedy” as it was defined in ancient Greece and by subsequent philosophers, including Hegel and Nietzsche. Examples of films viewed in this class are Pasolini’s Edipo Rei (Oedipus), Eugene O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra, and Marcel Camus’s Black Orpheus. We approach the literary texts as “scripts” of the tragic genre, and we are also interested in what tragedy means today.

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CLCS 33800 - The Tragic Vision