Season 3 · Episode 15
Sita Sings the Blues
Animation, adaptation, and appropriation
Seasons: A Year of Movies · Jacob and Emma
June 2, 2019Explicit
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Show Notes
This adaptation of part of the Ramayama was directed and animated entirely by Nina Paley. We discuss its layered approach to storytelling, the perils of working through stories from other cultures, and how even incredibly old religious stories are personal. Sita Sings the Blues is under creative commons and can be watched for free on YouTube or on sitasingstheblues.com. P.S. by the time we uploaded Emma got a Letterboxd (uofwhales).