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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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Mackey-Kallis, Susan
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press ©2001.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fhs7s
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • pt. 1. Mythological criticism
  • pt. 2. Mythological criticism in sociohistorical context
  • pt. 3. Synthesis.