STUDY GUIDE 8
Week 8 Guide to Readings and Film Viewing: What You Need to Know
1. How does Ang Lee successfully combine the comic book medium with the cinema medium in The Hulk? In The Ice Storm?
What are the differences between comic book medium and the cinema medium?
2.Ang Lee describes The Hulk as not a comic book movie but a
horror movie mixed in with Greek mythology and pseudo science.
What are the elements of horror movies? Identify the different Greek myths at play in The Hulk.
3. Identify some of the movies based on comic book figures that have entered the popular movie scene (Super Man, Spider Man, Dark Knight, etc.).
How Does Ang Lee's handling of The Hulk compare with other renditions of comic book characters?