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I know I can't use Wikipedia as a source in my literature review, but it had a really interesting entry on sword and sandal films, not to mention a whole lot of discussion on their Talk page, where the contributors hash out any problems with the entries. Based on what I read there, it looks like you really can't call Percy Jackson/ Lightning Thief a sword-and-sandal movie, mostly because it has high production values and isn't Italian. That sounds crazy, I know, but if you read the Wikipedia entry, it'll make sense. So, I've decided to go with Neo-mythology, which was mentioned in the entry as having been coined as a term by an Italian film director, Vittorio Cottafavi, who apparently just didn't like "sword and sandal" (I don't blame him, because it does sound kind of low rent).
All this led me to my proposal for the project. What I'm proposing is to establish neo-mythology as a subgenre of action/adventure, based on PJI. I need to find scholarly sources on the sword-and-sandal genre so that I can compare and contrast, and my research question is "Is Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief a sword-and-sandal film?" I'm going to argue that while it fits a lot of the criteria for s-and-s, it's something different.
I turned it in on Thursday, and I've got my fingers crossed.
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