[bioundgrd] FW: 21L.320 Big Books: Moby Dick Goes to the Movies

[Joshua Stone]

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From: Jessica TranVo <tranvoj at mit.edu<mailto:tranvoj at mit.edu>>
Subject: 21L.320 Big Books: Moby Dick Goes to the Movies
Date: October 7, 2019 at 2:12:55 PM EDT

Sent on behalf of Daria Johnson, if you can distribute this to your student, we would be very grateful!

Dear all,

21L.320 starts this half term, on October 21st.

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21L.320 Big Books: Moby Dick Goes to the Movies
Instructor: Wyn Kelley
Monday/Wednesdays 1:00 - 2:30
Room 1-379

We take as our starting point a singular paradox: without popular culture (movies, radio, television, comic books, music) Moby-Dick would not be a literary classic, considered today one of the greatest literary texts written in the U.S., if not the greatest. But Moby-Dick was not always the greatest American novel.  The dissemination of Moby-Dick through twentieth-century mass media brought it to wide attention for the first time and resurrected a work that had never been popular in Melville’s day.  This class examines Moby-Dick, as both literary text and cultural phenomenon. Giving close attention to the novel as a rich experience in itself, we will also explore the emergence of Moby-Dick in twentieth-century media: early silent film, cinematic and theatrical adaptations, video, anime, music. Topics for discussion will include Melville’s sources and influences, changing definitions of the classic, race, gender, sexuality, and religion as questions for interpretations of the novel, and as issues in contemporary media translations of older forms and stories.



Jessica TranVo
Administrative Assistant II
Publicity & Outreach
MIT, Lit Section
(617) 258-5629

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