Resumen de Zurück in die Zukunft via Ithaca, Mississippi: Technik und Funktion der Homer-Rezeption in "O Brother, Where Art Thou"
Joel and Ethan Coen¿s film, O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000), which claims to be ¿based upon ,The Odyssey¿ by Homer¿, does not only aim at a broader audience, but also at recipients who are far more familiar with Homer¿s epic than the average viewer. Although the plot is set in depression-era Mississippi, the movie shows obvious parallels to the Odyssey, generally in describing the adventures of a man returning home to regain his wife and status and more specifically in details of plot, characters, and structure. A significant feature of the movie is that of merging references to unrelated episodes of the Odyssey and of combining references to the Odyssey with reminiscences of other models in a single scene. The authors employ subtle techniques of reference not only to produce a humorous travesty of the Odyssey, but also to reflect implicitly on aspects of continuity and change in history and human life
