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In this weekly show, Dr. Todd Mack from Hillsdale College discusses the big ideas from his Hero’s Journey in Masterpieces of Film class.
Dr. Mack discusses the hero’s journey in Federico Fellini’s 1963 film 8 1/2. There is a lot going on in this film, and it turns out it has a message worth exploring.
Dr. Mack discusses the steps of the hero’s journey in Charlie Chaplin’s 1921 masterpiece The Kid — and perhaps even helps that crazy dreamland sequence make a bit of sense.
Dr. Mack discusses the final part of Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces. This is the cosmogonic cycle, in which the universe comes into being, hero’s go on quests, and the universe dissolves back into nothingness.
In this episode Dr. Mack covers the steps of Atonement with the Father, Apotheosis, Ultimate Boon, Magic Flight, Rescue from Without, Crossing the Return Threshold, Master of the Two Worlds, and Freedom to Live.
In this episode Dr. Mack gives a brief idea of the In Case You Missed Class series, and then briefly but specifically discusses the steps in the first half of the Hero’s Journey as described in Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With a Thousand Faces.
