Il mito nel cinema, il cinema come mito. Ridefinizioni del mito classico nella cultura contemporanea

Il mito nel cinema, il cinema come mito. Ridefinizioni cinematografiche del mito classico nella cultura contemporanea Myth in Cinema, Cinema as Myth. Cinematic Redefinitions of the Classical Myth in Contemporary Culture Frank Westerman, in his recent book Stikvallei (The Suffocating Valley), Amsterdam 2013, has taught us how a myth grows also in contemporary culture, through the mass media and the scientific reports as well as in the popular tales. The relationship between this particular kind of contemporary mythopoesis and the reality is absolutely similar to the process of creation of ancient greek myths. In my opinion, cinema is one of the most powerful mythopoetic systems in the contemporary global culture. For this reason I would analyze the formal and thematic relationship between ancient mythtological texts and movies that are not only about classical antiquity but that mainly face the modern and contemporary world. This is also an anthropological point of view on the imaginative power of the ancient myth, both in its original cultural context and in cultures that have transposed and modified it through new forms of storytelling just like the cinematic one.