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...

詳細記述

書誌詳細
第一著者: Mackey-Kallis, Susan
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press ©2001.
オンライン・アクセス:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fhs7s
目次:
  • pt. 1. Mythological criticism
  • pt. 2. Mythological criticism in sociohistorical context
  • pt. 3. Synthesis.