El espejo deformante. Heracles en el cine del siglo XXI
- 1 Universidad de La Laguna (España)
ISSN: 1697-459X
Ano de publicación: 2021
Número: 19
Páxinas: 89-122
Tipo: Artigo
Outras publicacións en: Revista Latente: Revista de Historia y Estética del Audiovisual
Resumo
This article examines how 21st-century cinema has embraced one of the most important figures in classical mythology, the Greek hero Herakles. How cinematic art has captured and adapted the events that classical sources tell of the myth of the son of Zeus. And beyond his story, how it has assumed, varied or decontextualized the personality, values and attitude of a being that was undeniably of his time. In this way, by comparing the written story with the filmed story, we examine which episodes of the hero’s life have been brought to the big screen and which of them have not, and try to explain why. This comparison will also help us to determine the interrelations between the production of the films and the literary work on which they are based