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Sith, Slayers, Stargates, + Cyborgs: Modern Mythology in the New Millennium

Sith, Slayers, Stargates, + Cyborgs: Modern Mythology in the New Millennium

Whitt, David
Perlich, John
Miller, Toby

Hardcover

Series: Popular Culture and Everyday Life, Book 19

General ReferenceAnthropologyFilm Studies

ISBN10: 1433100959
ISBN13: 9781433100956
Publisher: Peter Lang Us
Published: Dec 27 2007
Pages: 220
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The beginning of the twenty-first century has already seen its fair share of modern myths with heroes such as Spider-Man, Superman, and Harry Potter. The authors in this volume deconstruct, discuss, engage, and interrogate the mythologies of the new millennium in science fiction fantasy texts. Using literary and rhetorical criticism - paired with philosophy, cultural studies, media arts, psychology, and communication studies - they illustrate the function, value, and role of new mythologies, and show that the universal appeal of these texts is their mythic power, drawing upon archetypes of the past which resonate with individuals and throughout culture. In this way they demonstrate how mythology is timeless and eternal.

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