by Perlich, John R; Whitt, David
Book / 2010
TitleMillennial mythmaking : essays on the power of science fiction and fantasy literature, films and games
Item typeBook
Author(s)
  • Perlich, John R
  • Whitt, David
ImprintJefferson, N.C. McFarland & Co., 2010
ISBN
  • 9780786445622
  • 0786445629
LanguageEnglish
URLLink to original record
Notes
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Sorting heroic choices: green and red in the Harry Potter septology / Kirstin Cronn-Mills and Jessica Samens -- The complexity of evil in modern mythology: the evolution of the wicked witch of the West / Jason Edwards and Brian Klosa -- Polysemous myth: incongruity in Planet of the apes / Richard Besel and Reneé Smith Besel -- The hero with the thousand-and-first face: Miyazaki's girl quester in Spirited away and Campbell's Monomyth / Dee Geortz -- The odyssey of Madame Souza: a heroine's quest in The triplets of Belleville / David Whitt -- Rethinking the monomyth: Pan's labyrinth and the face of a new hero(ine) / John Perlich -- Actors and their mythic heroes: from the doctor to Captain Kirk / Djoymi Baker -- Running free in Angelina Jolie's virtual body: the myth of the new frontier and gender liberaton in Second life / Ellen Gorsevski -- So where do I go from here? Ghost in the shell and imagining cyborg mythology for the new millennium / Jay Scott Chipman.
  • Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.
Physical descriptionx, 202 p. ; 23 cm.

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2010
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Perlich, John RWhitt, David
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McFarland & Co
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