Homeric kleos and the Western Film

Winkler, Martin M.

doi:10.1353/syl.1996.0024

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1996

DOI: 10.1353/syl.1996.0024

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Homeric kleos and the Western Film

Martin M. Winkler¹

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The film Hercules Unchained (1959) is often reviled as a cheesy sword-and-sandal film, incapable of being rehabilitated. " Hercules Unchained: Contaminatio, Nostos, Katabasis and the Surreal" argues that, despite the banality of the film, the sum of its various parts presents a coherent and suggestive narrative whose bizarre articulation parallels, albeit unwittingly, the absurdist productions of the post-WWI Surrealists. The fantastically grotesque and literarily impossible combination of Hercules, Ulysses, and Oedipus ultimately resolves, mirabile dictu , in the theme of loss of identity. Set within a context of coming home from war, this extraordinarily kitsch "descent into hell" offered its contemporary audience a looking-glass reflection of the anxieties of the soldiers who were still coming home from WWII and Korea.

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This paper examines the history and variety of film adaptations of the Oedipus myth, based on Sophocles' plays Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus , and pays special attention to Freud's concept of the Oedipus complex. The paper discusses films set in antiquity and updated versions. It also deals with related themes such as fate and oracles in the relevant filmic modes (epic, tragedy, comedy) and genres (e.g., Westerns, science fiction, Hitchcock thrillers).

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Homeric kleos and the Western Film

Cited by 5 publications

References 21 publications

Hercules Unchained: Contaminatio, Nostos, Katabasis, and the Surreal

Hercules Unchained: Contaminatio, Nostos, Katabasis, and the Surreal

Oedipus in the Cinema

Introduction: Homer; Analysis and Influence

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