Nolan’s Odyssey - theatre archaeology By Michael Shanks

https://www.academia.edu/170926558/Nolan_s_Odyssey_theatre_archaeology?email_work_card=title Nolan’s movie The Odyssey, released in July 2026, is a reenactment of an old theme, but not one actually associated with the Odyssey. Nolan offers us a nineteenth-century myth of civility, barbarism, and savagery. Neither anachronistic nor woke, this is a key trope of colonial-imperialist ideology transcribed into Hollywood spectacle. ...