The Heroine’s Journey in Wonder Woman (2017 film)
The Wonder Woman film is a great success by every measure: loved by fans, praised by critics, breaking records at
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Hero’s Journey
The Heroine’s Journey in Supergirl (CBS/CW Television)
The Heroine’s Journey can be told in any medium, from books or comics to film and television. One of the
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May Hamilton Be With You: A Discussion on the Hit Musical, Star Wars, and the Past
Star Wars fans know a thing or two about being a fan, to love something so much that we find
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Star Wars Insider #167 Lets Rey’s Light Shine
If you haven’t checked out my featured articles in Star Wars Insider, hopefully Issue #167 will tempt you enough to
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Poe Dameron Soars in Star Wars Insider #165
There are a lot of great articles in Star Wars Insider #165, as highlighted by Jonathan Wilkins at starwars.com. My
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Hyperspace Theories Special Edition: Rey and the Hero’s Journey in The Force Awakens
Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been a record-smashing box office success, a reinvigoration of the movie side of franchise
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Rey’s Heroic Journey in The Force Awakens
Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been a record-smashing box office success, a reinvigoration of the movie side of franchise
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Ahsoka Tano’s Heroic Journey in Star Wars Insider 160
StarWars.com shares highlights from Star Wars Insider #160 out now on newsstands. Included is a piece I pitched on the
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Why Do We Write The Things We Do?
Does a hero’s parents have to die? This post challenges the way storyteller consider mythology.
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The Heroine’s Journey: How Campbell’s Model Doesn’t Fit
Why isn’t the existing Hero’s Journey model already good enough to use for heroine-centered stories? In this post, we address the three main problems we see in Joseph Campbell’s monomyth and its impact on storytelling, and how we hope to design the Heroine’s Journey model differently to avoid them.
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