Assignment for Wednesday, 11.06.19

Dear Mythologists,

For Wednesday, November 6, please do the following:

(1) Watch — via streaming service, reserved DVD, or your own copy — The Avengers (2012), the first film in our superhero team-up series (though hardly the first MCU film). As you watch, take notes on anything that strikes you as resonating with Greco-Roman myth, especially on the What? Why? and How? spectrum of ideas. Your notes will form the basis for our discussion of the film in class.

(2) Read Liam Burke's "'A Bigger Universe': Marvel Studios and Transmedia Storytelling," AKA chapter 2 of our Assembling the Marvel Cinematic Universe textbook (pp. 32–51). Take notes on interesting comments and insights, and be sure to bring the book to class.

(3) The following students must use the blog comments feature to recommend 3–5 minute sequences from The Avengers for close review in class: Cohen, Darby, Fitzhugh, Forte, Franzel. In your comments, please

• briefly describe the sequence;
• give approximate starting and ending times (hh:mm); and
• explain why reviewing this sequence is worth our time as it pertains to a mythical considerations of the MCU.

First come, first served. If someone has already suggested your sequence, choose another. If you're not signed in under your Google ID, or don't have one, be sure to identify yourself in the comments.

DC