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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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
©2001.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fhs7s |
Sommario:
- pt. 1. Mythological criticism
- pt. 2. Mythological criticism in sociohistorical context
- pt. 3. Synthesis.