Film Reviews

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Book reviewed in this article: People of the Klamath: Of Land and Life. 1987. Produced and directed by James Culp. 28 minutes, color. The Hero's Journey: The World of Joseph Campbell. 1987. Produced by William Free. 57 minutes, color.

Ambivalent Violence in Contemporary Game Design

“…The hero as warrior represents one dimension of Campbell's somewhat labyrinthine ''monomyth'': a transcultural Jungian model for understanding mythic narratives that remains as influential as it is contested. While Campbell's monomyth certainly leaves itself open to legitimate claims of ahistorical/acultural overgeneralization (e.g., Crespi, 1990;Segal, 1984), it nonetheless provides many useful tools for drawing connections, however loose and/or conditional, between the ''thousand faces'' of heroic storytelling across literature, cinema, and, in this case, video games. Campbell's (1993, pp.…”