Star Wars:Heroism & Ideology
ENG-300Z-01
Binghamton University
- Semester
- Summer 2025
- Instructor
- Kenny Roggenkamp
- Start Date
- 07-07-2025
- Total Credits
- 4
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Since their earliest appearance Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia, legends and fairy tales involving King Arthur his Knights of the Roundtable have fascinated poets, playwrights, novelists, and (most recently) filmmakers. In this course, we will look at depictions of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table across three genres: humor, animation, and contemporary cinema. By examining Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Sword in the Stone, and the 2021 adaptation of the classic Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, we will examine the nature of myth, the importance of fantasy, and questions of translation and adaptation. In addition to watching and interrogating the films, we will engage with classic film scholarship from Umberto Eco and Gilles Deleuze, probing these three exemplars of their genre to question why the legend of King Arthur and his knights continues to inspire such broad fascination in modern audiences.
General Education Area(s): Humanities
Course Area: English & Literature
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Dates: 07-07-2025 - 08-08-2025
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