The hero and the perennial journey home in American film /

In contemporary America, myths find expression primarily in film. What's more, many of the highest-grossing American movies of the past several decades have been rooted in one of the most fundamental mythic narratives, the hero quest. Why is the hero quest so persistently renewed and retold? In...

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Autor principal: Mackey-Kallis, Susan
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press ©2001.
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fhs7s
Taula de continguts:
  • pt. 1. Mythological criticism
  • pt. 2. Mythological criticism in sociohistorical context
  • pt. 3. Synthesis.