Studying
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REL371
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This course focuses upon Francis Ford
Coppola's film Apocalypse Now Redux (2001) as both a paradigm of
"intertextuality" and a site for the contestation of "religious
themes" in literature, film, and popular song. We will follow
Captain Willard and his crew on their "mission" up the
river into Cambodia and study some of the texts that intersect and
compose the film's text. These will include the book of Revelation
from the Bible; Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness; T.S. Eliot's
poems "The Waste Land" and "The Hollow Men";
Michael Herr's Dispatches; the music of the Doors; Sophocles' drama
Oedipus Rex; Freud's theory of the "Oedipus Complex";
selections from Jessie L. Weston's From Ritual to Romance and James
Frazer's The Golden Bough (books Eliot cites in the footnotes to
"The Waste Land" and Coppola situates in the film); television
reports on the Vietnam war; and Hearts of Darkness, a documentary
film about the making of the original Apocalypse Now (1979). |
