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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מחבר ראשי: Mackey-Kallis, Susan
פורמט: Licensed eBooks
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press ©2001.
גישה מקוונת:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fhs7s
תוכן הענינים:
  • pt. 1. Mythological criticism
  • pt. 2. Mythological criticism in sociohistorical context
  • pt. 3. Synthesis.