Ancient Myths in Contemporary Cinema: Oedipus Rex and Perceval the Knight of the Holy Grail in Pulp Fiction and The Sixth Sense

Authors

Inbar Shaham, Tel Aviv University, Israel; Open University of IsraelFollow

Abstract

A study of two contrasting myths of fathers and sons— the stories of Oedipus and Percival, which Claude Lévi-Strauss saw as in many ways inverse images of each other—in a number of contemporary films, focusing most closely on Pulp Fiction and The Sixth Sense.

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