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Category: Commentary

The Hero’s Journey is Hollywood’s McMyth

The Hero’s Journey is Hollywood’s McMyth

August 8, 2022 RoyHanney

Author C.P. Nield argues that the Hero’s Journey is a Hollywood McMyth and is to partly to blame for the rise of moral relativism in the movie world.

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Posted in: Commentary Filed under: C.P. Nield, Hero's, Hollywood, Journey, McMyth
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On the tyranny of the author and the agency of imagination

July 22, 2022 RoyHanney

Is what makes a storytelling experience immersive the ‘agency of imagination’? Is the ‘passive’ vs ‘active’ debate really a straightforward question and/or distinction?

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