John Perlich is an associate professor of communication studies at Bemidji State University in Bemidji, Minnesota. His teaching specialties include communication theory, mixed research methods, public speaking (presentation-based courses), and interpersonal communication. David Whitt is a professor of communication studies at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska. He teaches mass media, persuasion, communication in the professions, and has taught courses on Star Trek, comic books, and the Irish rock group U2.

“intriguing...recommended”—Choice; “valuable”—Mythlore.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface: “There and Back Again…”      Contrasting Colors1. Sorting Heroic Choices: Green and Red in the Harry Potter Septology(KIRSTIN CRONN-MILLS and JESSICA SAMENS)      2. The Complexity of Evil in Modern Mythology: The Evolution of the Wicked Witch of the West(JASON EDWARDS and BRIAN KLOSA)      3. Polysemous Myth: Incongruity in Planet of the Apes(RICHARD BESEL and RENEÉ SMITH BESEL)      New Champions4. The Hero with the Thousand-and-First Face: Miyazaki’s Girl Quester in Spirited Away and Campbell’s Monomyth(DEE GEORTZ)      5. The Odyssey of Madame Souza: A Heroine’s Quest in The Triplets of Belleville(DAVID WHITT)      6. Rethinking the Monomyth: Pan’s Labyrinth and the Face of a New Hero(ine)(JOHN PERLICH)      No Boundaries7. Actors and Their Mythic Heroes: From the Doctor to Captain Kirk(DJOYMI BAKER)      8. Running Free in Angelina Jolie’s Virtual Body: The Myth of the New Frontier and Gender Liberaton in Second Life(ELLEN GORSEVSKI)      9. So Where Do I Go from Here? Ghost in the Shell and Imagining Cyborg Mythology for the New Millennium(JAY SCOTT CHIPMAN)      Epilogue: “Always in Motion Is the Future…”      About the Contributors      Index

John Perlich is an associate professor of communication studies at Bemidji State University in Bemidji, Minnesota. His teaching specialties include communication theory, mixed research methods, public speaking (presentation-based courses), and interpersonal communication. David Whitt is a professor of communication studies at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska. He teaches mass media, persuasion, communication in the professions, and has taught courses on Star Trek, comic books, and the Irish rock group U2.

“intriguing...recommended”—Choice; “valuable”—Mythlore.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface: “There and Back Again…”      Contrasting Colors1. Sorting Heroic Choices: Green and Red in the Harry Potter Septology(KIRSTIN CRONN-MILLS and JESSICA SAMENS)      2. The Complexity of Evil in Modern Mythology: The Evolution of the Wicked Witch of the West(JASON EDWARDS and BRIAN KLOSA)      3. Polysemous Myth: Incongruity in Planet of the Apes(RICHARD BESEL and RENEÉ SMITH BESEL)      New Champions4. The Hero with the Thousand-and-First Face: Miyazaki’s Girl Quester in Spirited Away and Campbell’s Monomyth(DEE GEORTZ)      5. The Odyssey of Madame Souza: A Heroine’s Quest in The Triplets of Belleville(DAVID WHITT)      6. Rethinking the Monomyth: Pan’s Labyrinth and the Face of a New Hero(ine)(JOHN PERLICH)      No Boundaries7. Actors and Their Mythic Heroes: From the Doctor to Captain Kirk(DJOYMI BAKER)      8. Running Free in Angelina Jolie’s Virtual Body: The Myth of the New Frontier and Gender Liberaton in Second Life(ELLEN GORSEVSKI)      9. So Where Do I Go from Here? Ghost in the Shell and Imagining Cyborg Mythology for the New Millennium(JAY SCOTT CHIPMAN)      Epilogue: “Always in Motion Is the Future…”      About the Contributors      Index