Performance

I giganti della Tessaglia (The Giants of Thessaly)

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Screening at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, *I giganti della Tessaglia (The Giants of Thessaly)* (1960) revisits Greek myth through the lens of postwar Italian popular cinema. Director Riccardo Freda stages gods, heroes, and monsters with a pragmatic emphasis on action and craft, reflecting how classical stories were repurposed for modern audiences. No specific NYC premiere history is reliably documented, but its presence at MoMA signals its value as an artifact of the peplum cycle and its transnational afterlife. One can see Freda testing the boundary between mythic spectacle and disciplined genre filmmaking.