Sacred Space: Applying Joseph Campbell's Four Functions of Myth to the Star Wars Universe

ISBN-10: 1392887992
ISBN-13: 9781392887998
Series: Sacred Space
Category: Campbell, Joseph
Pages: 330
Language: English
Published: 2019
Author: John Kenneth Jr Bucher

Description

Modern Mythology in popular culture is represented with visual aesthetics, ritualistic elements, and thematic motifs that all nod at those found in ancient mythological traditions. Creators are utilizing new mediums to explore these ideas faster than researchers have been able to give rigorous analysis to them in many cases. George Lucas’s Star Wars saga, however, has now been the subject of research for a period lengthy enough to begin to warrant analysis of a comparative nature. Lucas has always carefully credited the ideas of mythologist, Joseph Campbell, for the ideas behind the universal narrative elements in his saga. Researchers examining the mythic motifs within Lucas’s stories have pointed to Campbell’s most noted work, The Hero With A Thousand Faces, as the explicit link between the two writers, almost exclusively. However, much of Campbell’s other work can be implicitly and explicitly found in Star Wars as well.