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1	Great Expectations: The Role of Myth in 1980s Films with Child Heroes Olson, Eric Lars 31 May 2011 (has links) This study performed a mythic analysis on three films with child heroes including E.T.—the Extra-Terrestrial, Stand by Me, and The Goonies. Several unifying themes were extracted and then compared with the dominant values of Reagan America to determine if these films provided a unique cultural outlook. While most of the uncovered themes have been recognized in other films of the era, the theme of childhood as a community in peril is unique. It is purported these films pass judgment on Reagan as a dubious national patriarch, and that it is possible that this is a function that many myths with child heroes fulfill. / Master of Arts Cinema Spielberg Monomyth Myth Hero
2	In Pursuit of the Hero : Mythological Heroic Structures in J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter Series Ahmed, Kamal January 2013 (has links) Criticism of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series has maintained that its popularity stems from a well-marketed, repetitive and simple structure. However, this essay considers that this success derives from recognizable mythological heroic structures. The essay traces the protagonist’s development from the perspective of two different theories that contrast and complement each other in various ways, Otto Rank’s theory of the myth of the birth of the hero and Joseph Campbell’s theory of the monomyth. Campbell and Rank both hypothesize that hero myths are repetitive because they emerge from the subconscious of human kind. It can be seen in the tracing of the heroic development in Harry Potter that— although various aspects and features in the hero’s journey are followed in the narrative — the series does not strictly fit these theories. The result is a combination of different features from both theories, which modernizes the heroic myth that has pervaded human culture and history since time immemorial. Campbell Harry Potter Heroic Structures Monomyth Mythology Rank
3	Aplikace teorie hrdinského monomýtu na vybraná díla fantastické literatury a filmu 20. století / Hero's Journey in Fantastic Literature of 20th Century ČMEJRKOVÁ, Tereza January 2017 (has links) The primary objective of this Diploma thesis is the introduction of a theory called the Hero's Journey by Joseph Campbell and the Heroine's Journey by Maureen Murdock and a consequential attempt to apply obtained theoretical findings of these theories on hero myths on the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling and the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. The secondary objective of this thesis is the analysis of archetype occurrence in the above mentioned literary works. The second part of the thesis focuses on hero myths application on two selected film adaptations of comic books from the Marvel studios and a Disney fairy tale.
4	Influencern och den gordiska knuten : En studie om gestaltningen av psykisk ohälsa i sociala medier / The influencer and the gordian knot : A study of the framing of mental health in social media Sundberg, Fredrik January 2020 (has links) This essay examines influencers’ framing of mental illness and how the framing could possibly affect the growing problem of mental illness among Swedish youth. Previous research concerning mental illness among youth, social media and social contagion is presented as a basic understanding of the problem at hand. Approximately 16 000 Instagram posts from Sweden’s most influential Instagram accounts were reviewed for content about mental illness. Posts containing descriptions of mental illness were extracted and analyzed using thematical analysis. The main finding from the thematical analysis was that influencers tended to use The Hero’s Journey dramaturgy in the framing of mental illness. The main conclusion made from the study was that influencer framing of mental health issues, consciously or unconsciously, tended to augment mental illness in a number of ways. The influencers seemed to have developed specializations in different forms of mental illness. The specialized influencer took upon him/herself the role of a mentor to followers experiencing symptoms of the same type of mental illness, leading them on for their own Hero’s Journey. Hence, the mechanisms of The Hero’s Journey were shown to, in themselves, have a tendency to increase the contagious effects of mental illness. mental Illness influencers monomyth Hero’s journey social contagion emotional contagion Instagram youth psykisk ohälsa influencers monomyth hjälteresan social smitta känslosmitta Instagram unga Social Work Socialt arbete
5	A hero's journey : a modern musical exploration of the monomyth Brace, Conor Lane 08 September 2010 (has links) This thesis presents and analyzes the author's original jazz composition "A Hero's Journey," based on the ancient and widespread storytelling pattern that Joseph Campbell called the "monomyth." Using major concepts from the monomyth, the author composed a suite for ten-piece jazz orchestra consisting of six scenes divided into two acts. Although rooted in the jazz tradition, the piece borrows freely from classical music, African music, Indian music, and modern rock and hip-hop to create an adventurous and continually evolving musical experience. This thesis first provides an overview of the entire suite, then discusses its important melodic themes, and finally analyzes the techniques used for harmonic development within the piece. / text Hero's journey Monomyth Music Jazz Composition Suite Classical music African music Indian music Rock Hip-hop
6	Lamm blir lejon : den moraliska uppfostran i amerikansk äventyrsfilm Wahlström, Kristina January 2010 (has links) Denna uppsats rör den moral som presenteras för oss i amerikanska äventyrsfilmer. Tre filmer, King Arthur, Robin Hood och Gladiator, presenteras och analyseras. Hjältens handlingar är i fokus men även antagonisten och andra bikaraktärers handlingar är av vikt. Detta ställs mot den traditionella pliktetiken då vi får se om hjältens handlingar är förenliga eller strider mot den. En diskussion följer också kring filmernas upplägg och vad lockelsen med denna typ av film egentligen är. Filmanalys King Arthur Robin Hood Gladiator hjälte heroism traditionell pliktetik Immanuel Kant The american monomyth
7	The Woman as . . . : The Feminine Quest in The Feminine Quest in <i>Lágrimas en la lluvia</i> and <i>El peso del corazón</i> by Rosa Montero Glassett, Zachary Nelson 01 June 2018 (has links) Rosa Montero's novels Lágrimas en la lluvia and Peso del corazón focus on Bruna Husky, an android private detective living in Madrid in 2109. Husky's career leads her into investigating various sinister plots, both of which she falls victim to. These quests lead her to make discoveries about herself that challenge her beliefs about herself. All the cases that Bruna investigates take her on journeys that mirror Campbell's structure of the monomythic quest. My analysis of the novels focuses on how Bruna follows the model of the Campbellian cycle while at the same time questioning the quest, keeping true to archetypes of the feminine quest as established by Anis Pratt and Dana Heller. My article focuses on three distinctive steps in the quest, the crossing of the threshold, initiation, and the return, as well as the most important characteristic of the feminine quest, the heroine's negation of the patriarchal society. Keywords: science-fiction feminine quest monomyth hero's journey Rosa Montero.
8	The Player Character's Journey: The Hero's Journey in Moldvay's Dungeons & Dragons Leopold, Robert 01 December 2019 (has links) This study explores the archetypes, motifs, and stages of the Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey as they are found in the Moldvay revision of the rules to Basic Dungeons & Dragons, that emerge from playing the game using the seven adventure modules printed for these rules. Using narratological concepts, the definition of what makes narrative is expanded to include the narrative that emerges by playing story-based roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons. These narratives, based on the seven adventure modules, are the analyzed using Campbell's monomyth as an interpretive tool, showing that these types of narratives are up to similar academic scrutiny as other forms of narrative. Such scrutiny shows that the types of narrative that emerge from playing a tabletop roleplaying game like Dungeons & Dragons need an expansion of the models for narrative analysis. This expansion presents a myriad of opportunities for future study. Storytelling Monomyth Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Narratology Comparative Literature Folklore Reading and Language
9	Záporné postavy a jejich motivace ve filmech Marvel Cinematic Universe / The supervillains and their motivations in Marvel Cinematic Universe movies Navrátil, David January 2020 (has links) This thesis deals with the villains' depiction in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies. By examining the first 20 movies of the series, I try to find out how are the villains depicted in the MCU movies and what are their motivations. This is achieved through combination of studying relevant literature that deals with the topic, qualitative content analysis of the movies and narrative analysis, which is based on the monomyth structure of Joseph Campbell and its reinterpretation for movies and television by Christopher Vogler. In this thesis I first shortly describe the history of superhero movie as a whole and the specifics of the shared Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the theoretical part I describe Campbell's and Vogler's narrative structure. Then I describe the methodology, which I then use to describe the findings and their interpretations. In this part I examine the villains' motivations, which are divided into several categories, and examine their story arcs through the prism of the Hero's journey structure. Here it is shown that the villains in the MCU movies are depicted in an overwhelmingly Manichean way. In the discussion, I describe possible issues with my research and suggest potential directions of further research. In the conclusion, I then summarize the findings of both the theoretical...
10	Robert Langdon's Hero's Journey : Reading the Novels of Dan Brown with the perspective of the Monomyth / Robert Langdons hjälteresa : En läsning av Dan Browns romaner med perspektivet av monomyten Klevskog, Emma January 2017 (has links) This essay investigates the characteristics of Robert Langdon and his female helpers in Dan Brown’s novels Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost symbol and Inferno. In each of these novels, the quests are always solved by a male-female team. This essay is therefore going to focus on the character of Robert Langdon and his female helpers with the perspective of the Monomyth by Joseph Campbell. The protagonist Robert Langdon is a Harvard University professor specialised in religious iconology and symbology, but in these four novels he is thrown into breath-taking adventures with dangerous situations, however, with the help of several females he always manages to survive. The aim of this essay is to show how Langdon and his female helpers have the characteristics of a contemporary hero and helper, with the perspective of Campbell’s the Monomyth. Keywords: Character Analysis, Robert Langdon, Hero, Female Helper, the Monomyth, Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, Inferno. Robert Langdon Hero's Journey Female Helpers Dan Brown Joseph Campbell The Monomyth The Da Vinci Code Inferno Angels and Demons The Lost Symbol.

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