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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Príomhchruthaitheoir: Mackey-Kallis, Susan
Formáid: Licensed eBooks
Teanga:Béarla
Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press ©2001.
Rochtain ar líne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fhs7s
Clár na nÁbhar:
  • pt. 1. Mythological criticism
  • pt. 2. Mythological criticism in sociohistorical context
  • pt. 3. Synthesis.