Great Expectations: The Role of Myth in 1980s Films with Child Heroes

This study performed a mythic analysis on three films with child heroes including E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Stand by Me, and The Goonies. Several unifying themes were extracted and then compared with the dominant values of Reagan America to determine if these films provided a unique cultural o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Olson, Eric Lars
Other Authors: Communication Studies
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32929
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05172011-113805/