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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主要作者: Mackey-Kallis, Susan
格式: Licensed eBooks
语言:英语
出版: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press ©2001.
在线阅读:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fhs7s
书本目录:
  • pt. 1. Mythological criticism
  • pt. 2. Mythological criticism in sociohistorical context
  • pt. 3. Synthesis.