“The Power of Myth” — MIA???
One of my students in the online screenwriting class I’m currently teaching — “Character Archetypes” — posted that the wonderful 6-part PBS series The Power of Myth, featuring Bill Moyers interviewing Joseph Campbell, is no longer available to buy. To which I can only say:
“%#&@^%&$!!!”
That series, originally broadcast in 1988, is the source of some of the best knowledge I’ve acquired about storytelling, characters, myth, even life. I’ve documented just a dollop of those insights here and here. I mean Hel-lo! “Follow your bliss” anyone?! And PBS does not have it in their catalog anymore?!?!
Thankfully, there’s this wonderful little thing known as YouTube. I’ll start posting The Power of Myth excerpts today, then again tomorrow, and so on to see how deep into the series the collective cyber-community has gone in posting Joseph Campbell’s work on the Internet.
This is Segment 1 of Part 1, “The Hero’s Adventure” from The Power of Myth. Truly an awesome series.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq4QEWak4EY