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

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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.

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

  • May 2, 2019 LATEST EPISODE
  • infrequent NEW EPISODES
  • 16m AVG DURATION
  • 12 EPISODES


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012: Gravity (2013)

Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2019 11:50


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

011: Spirited Away (2001)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2019 17:12


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

010: Life is Beautiful (1997)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2019 9:25


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

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

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2019 19:22


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

008: 8 1/2 (1963)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2019 15:59


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.

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

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2019 18:32


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.

006: La Grande Illusion (1937)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2019 16:09


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

005: Metropolis (1927)

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2019 15:56


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?

004: The Kid (1921)

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2019 13:42


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.

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

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2019 19:39


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.

002: The Hero’s Journey part II

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2019 26:18


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.

001: The First Half of the Hero’s Journey

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2019 19:20


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.

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