Darren Hayes, musician and member of the band Savage Garden, cited Joseph Campbell and his concept of the Hero’s Journey as being greatly influential in his life. In an interview about his love for Star Wars on StarWars.com, Hayes states,…
Oxford PhD student, Josh Ettinger cites Joseph Campbell and his book, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, as powerful resources for storytelling within the sciences. In an article for Nature.com, Ettinger states, “When scientists describe their research to audiences outside…
Australian writer-director Mirrah Foulkes followed Joseph Campbell’s classic hero journey structure for her latest film, Judy and Punch, starring Mia Wasikowska. “That,” she said, “was intentional: leaning on that hero structure and subverting it. Like showing our relationship to violence…
Excitement around news of director Zack Snyder’s cut of the DC film Justice League, brought many back to talking about Joseph Campbell’s influence on Snyder. To read more about how Snyder secretly encoded a Campbell quote written in Kryptonian into…
Forbes contributor, Dede Henley, shares in her recent article Reframe Quaratine as an Adventure and Become Its Hero, her admiration for Joseph Campbell and his classic work, The Hero With a Thousand Faces. Applying Campbell and his book to current…
This week we celebrate the birthday of our beloved mythologist, mentor and friend, Joseph Campbell. Joe was born on March 26, 1904. In looking back at his post-graduate life, Joe often spoke of those five “formative years” in Woodstock, NY.…
Storyteller, author, and folklorist Diane Wolkstein (1942-2013) produced and hosted Stories From Many Lands. Sponsored by the New York City Parks Department, the Saturday morning children’s program aired from 1968-1980. Wolkstein’s career as the Parks Department’s first full-time storyteller began in…
The official full length version of FINDING JOE: A story about Joseph Campbell and The Hero’s Journey has been made available via YouTube by the filmmaker, Patrick Solomon. The documentary features Deepak Chopra, Robin Sharma, Rashida Jones, Sir Ken Robinson…
As many around the globe find themselves working from home and in self-quarantine from COVID-19, Ed Siegel, critic for public radio WBUR (90.9), points to the wisdom of Joseph Campbell as a path through such uncharted territory. Instead of mindlessly…
Vulture writer, Olivia Crandall, recently made her case that hit TV show, The Bachelor, closely follows Joseph Campbell’s monomyth. “Simba, Harry Potter, Peter Weber. What do these young pups have in common? No, it’s not battling nefarious scars but rather existing…
Giancarlo Esposito, who portrays Moff Gideon on Disney+’s The Mandalorian, recently discussed Joseph Campbell and the mythic roots of the hit show. “Originally George Lucas had a mentor and friend in Joseph Campbell. Joseph Campbell was all about the power…
Osgood “Oz” Perkins, son of acclaimed actor Anthony Perkins of Psycho fame, talked recently about the lens he brought to his latest film, Gretel and Hansel. “Fairytales are elementally rooted in the collective unconscious. Whether you’re approaching storytelling through Joseph…
Acclaimed Jeweler and creator of Bee Goddess, Ece Sirin points to Joseph Campbell, and specifically his book, Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine as inspiration for her celebrated work. She told Vanity Fair, “He gave more than 20 lectures and…
The title of the current exhibition showing at Heide Museum of Modern Art is an apt one as Terminus alludes to a finishing point or the attaining of a final goal. This notion of a quest, popularized by researcher of comparative mythologies…
British musician, DJ, and producer Akira the Don is bringing the work of Joseph Campbell to new audiences through his music. His latest album, Songs of Mythology, deals with many of Campbell’s concepts concerning myth. The first single from the…
“A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow…
NBA legend, Kobe Bryant, who died on January 26, had been vocal about his study of Joseph Campbell, and specifically The Hero’s Journey. Ramona Shelburne, a reporter for ESPN, recounted her conversations with Bryant about Campbell and his work. “We…
Mark Peterson is a philosophy professor at UW-Milwaukee’s College of General Studies, where he co-teaches a course on superheroes and mythology. “The actual structure of the course is an application of semiotic theory to unpacking whether or not metaphorical, mythical…
Musician, Vernon Reid, front man for the legendary rock band Living Color, recently invoked Joseph Campbell when talking about the influence of Jimi Hendrix on music. “Hendrix is like a Joseph Campbell character, a hero with a thousand faces,’” Reid…
“It’s no secret that Star Wars director George Lucas was profoundly influenced by comparative mythologist and literature professor Joseph Campbell and his seminal work The Hero With A Thousand Faces (1949). In case you don’t know what that book contains, here’s a very brief summary of…
Gloria Kisch had a different outlook from most of her peers, however, which, along with her gender and California provenance, made her entry into the New York art scene a challenge. In college she had studied with the mythologist Joseph…
Hina Siddiqui, programme coordinator of The Heroine’s Journey Festival, says, “The objective of the programme is to start a dialogue towards evolving the representation of women and femme people in the arts and media. Through the festival, we hope to…
Disney’s new Star Wars series, The Mandalorian, has many analyzing the show and bringing up one of Star Wars creator George Lucas’s key sources in creating the original films — Joseph Campbell. Jon Favreau, creator of The Mandalorian, has been…
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