Abstract
This chapter considers aspects of film spectatorship, focusing on a largely lost silent film entitled The Legend of Oedipus. It argues that the viewing positions that emerge from the film's fragmentary narrative, its reception history, and the preoccupation with vision of its principal source, Sophocles' Oedipus the King, can be used to reflect on wider issues related to the visualization of Greek tragedy on screen. The Legend of Oedipus does not only take us back to spectatorial practices before ‘classical Hollywood cinema’ which sought to move and challenge the spectator. It can also be linked with the viewing positions of types of film that developed in parallel with ‘classical Hollywood cinema’, and which sought to materialize the potential of cinema to challenge the spectator: avant-garde, experimental, and art-house forms of cinema.
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