Millennial Mythmaking: Essays on the Power of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Films and Games (Paperback)

from Ed_Gosney

I enjoy critical essays on subjects I love, yet this book touched on several topics I wasn't all that familiar with. It starts off with an essay on Harry Potter. I read the first volume aloud to my children and found myself daydreaming often as the nights wore on. It's also a family joke about ho...

from SusieBookworm

Edited by John Perlich and David Whitt, Millennial Mythmaking follows up their previous anthology of essays - Sith, Slayers, Stargates, and Cyborgs - with another round of contemporary comparative mythology. Generally connecting back to Joseph Campbell's theories of mythology, this collection exa...

from ronincats

This was an ER book I was excited to receive. However, I was disappointed in the execution. This is a collection of chapters that read as if written for scholarly journals--which they probably were. Except for the first article, there was a heavy emphasis on films rather than literature or games....