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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Tác giả chính: Mackey-Kallis, Susan
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press ©2001.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fhs7s
Mục lục:
  • pt. 1. Mythological criticism
  • pt. 2. Mythological criticism in sociohistorical context
  • pt. 3. Synthesis.