RT Article
T1 Re-envisioning Myth in Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens
JF Journal of religion and popular culture
VO 31
IS 1
SP 3
OP 15
A1 Gill, Glen Robert 1969-
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1663346712
AB Contrary to some commentaries, Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens maintains the mythic tenor of the popular film series but does so through a more subtle and nuanced use of mythological archetypes that follows not Joseph Campbell's somewhat basic "hero's journey" model but, rather, the re-creative mode of mythmaking discussed by theorists like Northrop Frye and Claude Lévi-Strauss. Through this method, The Force Awakens cleverly repurposes various classical, Biblical, Celtic, and Arthurian types, reaching deep into the ancient Indo-European tradition in some cases, and reinterprets the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, in particular, so as to present a contemporary feminine/feminist initiation myth.
K1 Star Wars
K1 The Force Awakens
K1 Archetype
K1 Feminist
K1 Initiation
K1 Myth
DO 10.3138/jrpc.2017-0017