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WOUNDS THAT WILL NOT HEAL: HEROISM AND INNOCENCE IN SHANE AND THE ILIAD

Rubino, Carl A. (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2014)

George Stevens’ film Shane, which dates from 1953, remains an especially successful version of the heroic paradigm that is established in Homer’s Iliad. Just as Achilles, the hero of Homer’s poem, considers abandoning the ...
O HOMER, WHERE ART THOU?: TEACHING THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY THROUGH POPULAR CULTURE

Young, Mallory (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2014)

Like so many of my academic colleagues, I spend an inordinate amount of time lamenting our students’ lack of engagement, discipline, and preparation. The problems are naturally exacerbated when the subject is literature ...
THE ODYSSEY AND ITS ODYSSEY IN CONTEMPORARY TEXTS: RE-VISIONS IN STAR TREK, THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE, AND THE PENELOPIAD

Economou Green, Mary (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2014)

Homer’s The Odyssey is the archetypal quest story. The dialogue began with Homer, and contemporary texts and popular culture media have continued the tradition of deconstructing and recreating stories, addressing issues ...
THESEUS LOSES HIS WAY: VIKTOR PELEVIN’S HELMET OF HORROR AND THE OLD LABYRINTH FOR THE NEW WORLD

Traweek, Alison (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2014)

This article explores the relationship between the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, and Viktor Pelevin’s 2006 adaptation of it, The Helmet of Horror, particularly how it can serve as a case study for the nature and ...
300 AND FELLINI-SATYRICON: FILM THEORY IN THE TERTIARY CLASSROOMTHIN-FILM MATERIALS

Glass, Leanne (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2014)

Pedagogical practices in Reception-based courses on ancient Greece and Rome in film often focus on an individual film’s connections to its historical themes and meta-narrative. In contrast, courses based on Film Studies ...
THE LABYRINTH OF MEMORY: IPHIGENEIA, SIMONIDES, AND CLASSICAL MODELS OF ARCHITECTURE AS MIND IN CHRIS NOLAN’S INCEPTION (2010)

Haller, Benjamin (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2014)

Chris Nolan’s 2010 film Inception uses architecture as a language whereby to comment upon the relationship of the protagonist, Dom Cobb, with his deceased wife, Mal. This paper argues that three classical models – Homer’s ...
OVID AND MEL GIBSON: POWER, VULNERABILITY, AND WHAT WOMEN WANT

Bakewell, Geoff (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2014)

Knowledge of Ovid is invaluable for analyzing Nancy Meyers’s film What Women Want (2000). Advertising executive Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson) is a sexist, chauvinistic ladies’ man who acquires the ability to hear what women ...
EXPERIMENTS IN LOVE: LONGUS’ DAPHNIS & CHLOE AND HENRY DE VERE STACPOOLE’S THE BLUE LAGOON

Day, Kirsten (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2014)

Despite a chronological gulf of nearly two thousand years, the second century C.E. Greek romance writer Longus and the early twentieth century Irish novelist Henry de Vere Stacpoole were prompted to produce their best works ...
GRAPHIC NOVEL REVIEW — THE ADVENTURES OF JOHNNY BUNKO: THE LAST CAREER GUIDE YOU’LL EVER NEED

Weiner, Robert G. (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2014)

In the world of higher education, the last 10 years have seen an explosion in the scholarly study of sequential art, sometimes dubbed comics studies. The present number of courses related to comics is probably triple what ...
VIDEO GAME REVIEW — FINAL FANTASY XIV: LEVEL UP FOREVER

Cowlishaw, Brian (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2014)

After a disastrous premature release, a complete design and programming team change, and a sweeping revision of battle and interface systems that continued until the very last minute, Final Fantasy XIV (FFXIV) is at last ...