In Case You Missed Class: The Hero’s Journey in Masterpieces of Film

In Case You Missed Class: The Hero’s Journey in Masterpieces of Film

In this weekly show, Dr. Todd Mack from Hillsdale College discusses the big ideas from his Hero’s Journey in Masterpieces of Film class.

Episodes

  1. 05/02/2019

    012: Gravity (2013)

    Dr. Mack talks about the Hero’s Journey in the Alfonso Cuarón film Gravity.

    11 min

  2. 04/23/2019

    011: Spirited Away (2001)

    Dr. Mack talks about Hiyao Miyazaki’s film Spirited Away.

    16 min

  3. 04/16/2019

    010: Life is Beautiful (1997)

    Dr. Mack discusses the hero’s journey in the Italian film Life is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni.

    9 min

  4. 04/09/2019

    009: Dersu Uzala (1975) and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

    Dr. Mack talks about the Akira Kurosawa film Dersu Uzala and the Spielberg/Lucas film Raiders of the Lost Ark.

    18 min

  5. 03/27/2019

    008: 8 1/2 (1963)

    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.

    15 min

  6. 03/19/2019

    007: The Philadelphia Story (1940) and The Searchers (1956)

    Dr. Mack talks about the Hero’s Journey in George Cukor’s 1940 romantic comedy The Philadelphia Story and John Ford’s 1956 western The Searchers.

    18 min

  7. 03/05/2019

    006: La Grande Illusion (1937)

    Dr. Mack discusses Jean Renoir’s 1937 masterpiece about French POWs in WWI, La Grande Illusion.

    15 min

  8. 02/27/2019

    005: Metropolis (1927)

    Dr. Mack discusses the hero’s journey in Fritz Lang’s sci-fi masterpiece from 1927, Metropolis. Which parts of the story work? Which parts fall flat?

    15 min

  9. 02/19/2019

    004: The Kid (1921)

    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.

    13 min

  10. 02/13/2019

    003: The Hero’s Journey Part III: The Cosmogonic Cycle

    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.

    19 min

  11. 02/06/2019

    002: The Hero’s Journey part II

    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.

    25 min

  12. 01/30/2019

    001: The First Half of the Hero’s Journey

    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.

    18 min
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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.

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