Nolan’s Odyssey (1) - theatre archaeology Michael Shanks 2026, mshanks.com

https://www.academia.edu/170926558/Nolan_s_Odyssey_1_theatre_archaeology?rhid=42524436415&swp=rr-rw-wc-172433280&nav_from=f7276d7d-aa58-4cb9-bfb1-db35deb010cf 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.