Thursday 9 September 2010

Helena Sheehan on Myth

http://webpages.dcu.ie/~sheehanh/myth.htm
Helena Sheehan discussses the importance of myth in storytelling and the formation of common threads that bind communities together.  She argues that Myth making is a fundamental human activity.  This article outlines the role of myth in drama and religion. What is the connection with James Bond?  In his unit we are comparing the presentation of gender in both the movie and the novel of Goldfinger.  The idea here is that the idea of male and female are not always "natural" but are also social and political ideas.  If that is true then a movie is not just entertainment but a social document.