Modern Mythology

A question of the myths that compose our culture!

Category:

Education

Tags:

• entertainment
• news
• performing
• arts
• short
• film
• anthropology
• social
• music
• ironman
• joker
• mythology
• myth
• modern
• culture

[Seeker4TheUnknown]

I love this video and I also like to think of our superhero as mondern day mythology but I dont think it ends theres (Yes, I know you used the matrix but since most of were comic heros I figure I say this) I also think urban legends, modern religous movements and charaters found in books films (Tarzan, Harry Potter, Indiana Jhones ect.) could also count as mondern day myths.

[dschneweis]

I agree with you! I am glad you enjoyed the video! Just a question for thought. Do you think that we as individuals still tell the myths of today? Or have the movie producers become our new story tellers?

[kzhines]

What a scary thought, that the actors whose crazy lives splatter the tabloids are the ones recounting our myths. If they are as significant as this video suggests, that DOES need to change!

[mwesch]

Congratulations on creating a great conversation starter. This poses some interesting questions. Hopefully others will jump in with some comments. Have you considered posting this to a blog along with some of your thoughts on this to get the conversation going?

[quigleyadam]

well done!  really enjoyed it!

[luddd1988]

Outstanding. This was surely the most enlighten video i have ever watched :) Great Job

[pearsoncrz]

search "Black Female Superheros" and watch the youtube video that collects these characters.

[pearsoncrz]

A woman's dreams and goals are often based on the very cultural assumptions she is trying to transcend. Our society promotes a woman's search for identity through love, marriage, and motherhood, but also requires a woman to act like a man, achieving career success, power and influence in order to establish her "equality" with male counterparts. This generates an internal conflict which erupts in conflict with her disappointing companions.

Their Eyes were watching God

The Color Purple

[pearsoncrz]

For example, how does the female "hero" myth differ from the male hero, if at all, and why?

Western culture relies on the hero quest myth to support its mysoginist perspective on male/female roles in society.

Interesting that Catwoman was not selected or used as an example in this video. What other female "role models" are available in "modern" films?

[pearsoncrz]

Check out the John David Ebert Lecture (3 parts) that explores Campbell's work. Available on youtube.

[pearsoncrz]

Myths not only reflect, but shape our society. We are what we believe.

[pearsoncrz]

Why start with films aimed at teens? I agree that a culture's mythology is taught at an earlier age.

Read Joseph Campbell. Or check out what Ursula LeGuin has to say about myth.

There is a difference between fiction/fantasy and myth.