Moving Histories
Join film professors Kim Nelson, Robert Burgoyne, and John Trafton as they explore the films that connect us with the past.
Edited by Nick Hector, BFE CCE
Music by Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV, Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license
Moving Histories
The Odyssey
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John Trafton, Kim Nelson, and Robert Burgoyne
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey brings one of history's oldest stories to the screen, but what does it reveal about myth, memory, and historical storytelling? Joined by renowned classicist Monica Cyrino, we explore Nolan's adaptation, revisit the ideas from our Oppenheimer episode about Nolan as a historian, and discuss why Homer continues to shape cinema nearly three thousand years later.