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Butler, Dan B.

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Burden of knowledge: An exploration of myth, history, and the motif of lost innocence in the filmography of Oliver Stone.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Burden of knowledge: An exploration of myth, history, and the motif of lost innocence in the filmography of Oliver Stone./
Author:	Butler, Dan B.
Description:	116 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Barbara Hales.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International44-06.
Subject:	Cinema. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1434862
ISBN:	9780542698576

Burden of knowledge: An exploration of myth, history, and the motif of lost innocence in the filmography of Oliver Stone.
Butler, Dan B.

Burden of knowledge: An exploration of myth, history, and the motif of lost innocence in the filmography of Oliver Stone. - 116 p.

Adviser: Barbara Hales.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Houston-Clear Lake, 2006.

Joseph Campbell's representative cultural myth is used to analyze the filmography of Oliver Stone. A countermyth, the resulting structural alternative to Campbell's monomyth, is explored. Stone's methodology for conveying the countermyth is demonstrated by applying Sergei Eisenstein's cinematic theories. The concept of lost innocence plays an important role in many narrative traditions, and it is an important motif embedded in the countermyth. The significance of the lost innocence motif is established by considering its cultural and historical importance. Key events in post-World War II America---John Kennedy's assassination, the Vietnam War, and Watergate---are examined as manifestations of a collective search for meaning. Coincident and retrospective critical analyses of Stone's films are explored to determine the ability of the countermyth to effect social change. The countermyth is explored as a search for meaning in the myth, history, and trauma of a generation.

ISBN: 9780542698576Subjects--Topical Terms:

854529
Cinema.

Burden of knowledge: An exploration of myth, history, and the motif of lost innocence in the filmography of Oliver Stone.
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