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| + | He achieved widespread recognition with his PBS miniseries, "The Power of Myth." | ||
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Revision as of 22:40, November 23, 2009
Joseph J. Campbell (1904 – 1987) was an American mythologist, perhaps best known for his PBS miniseries, The Power of Myth, based off his book of the same name and another book titled "The Hero with a Thousand Faces."
Personal Life
Joseph Campbell was born in 1904 to a conservative, Catholic family in White Plains, New York[1].
In 1938, Joseph Campbell married Jean Erdman, whom he remained married to for the remainder of his life. Campbell was a conservative throughout his life[2].
He passed away due to esophageal cancer in 1987[3].
Professional Life
Joseph Campbell wrote extensively on mythic structure, identifying themes and plot elements common to hundreds of myths from many different world cultures. Perhaps his most widely-read book, which is required reading in unviersities across the world, is The Hero with a Thousand Faces. In this book, he examines the "human impulse to create stories and images that, though they are clothed in the motifs of a particular time and place, draw nonetheless on universal, eternal themes."
He achieved widespread recognition with his PBS miniseries, "The Power of Myth."