Sentences with phrase «mythic archetype»

For the artist, Orpheus, is the mythic archetype representing the artist and the creative process itself.

They can both be considered versions of the same mythic archetype: the quest for paradise; one for an earthy paradise in which impulses are gratified here and now, one for a heavenly paradise at some future time.

The three central characters are all blandly pretty faces who give continuously stilted line readings and never convincingly embody their respective mythic archetypes, so it's up to the old pros to pick up the slack.

Though Altman's films compare with Coppola's as chamber music does with grand opera, their work in the 1970s exemplifies what ultimately became the prevailing style of American film direction in that era: maverick resistance to studio - imposed time and budget constraints, insistence on directorial authorship, reliance on location shooting, use of improvisational acting, an emphasis on ensemble playing rather than star performances, Fordian gatherings — weddings, church services, parties, dinners — as exponents of group character (both Altman and Coppola had Catholic upbringings), and a revisionist approach to the mythic archetypes of the Hollywood genre film.

He favored forms that defamiliarized the familiar, shapes that hint at the bodily or the more generally biological, mythic archetypes and intangible dreams.

These break up pages of poetic text, exploring the phenomenon of meaning - making through narrative fiction and the vague approximations of mythic archetypes.

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But here the archetypes that the mythic gestures of beginning point to are much more explicit.

Michael Real defines mythic activity as «the collective reenactment of symbolic archetypes that express the shared emotions and ideals of a given culture.

The hero's journey is based on the work of screenwriter Christopher Vogler, whose book The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers was in turn based upon his interpretation of the archetypes described by Joseph Campbell in his seminal work on mythology, The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

Nova Scotia About Blog Catherine mission is to enable clarity and insight into an individual's personal growth, through the archetypes found in the Mythic Tarot.