Campbell in Culture
In his memoir, titled WILL, actor Will Smith credits Joseph Campbell’s work as being key to his career and life. According to an article by Jane Mulkerrins in The Times, Smith “credits his film...
In a video featured on the website for GQ Magazine, actor and musician, Will Smith, points to Joseph Campbell and The Hero With a Thousand Faces when describing his own growth as a person....
The website GameFreaks365 reports that the upcoming game, Last Soul, uses the work of Joseph Campbell as the basis of the game’s story. The article states that the game will be an action-packed shooting...
This video by Ministry Of Cinema, a YouTube channel that creates video essays on important figures, highlights Campbell’s teachings and its connections to cinema and storytelling as a whole. It seems as new forms of...
Recordings and TRANSCRIPTS of The Power of Myth, conducted by Bill Moyers and featuring Joseph Campbell, all recorded at George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch for PBS. Read the article published by Moyers & Company, which...
Those familiar with the Minecraft® Hero’s JourneyTM interactive game software have witnessed the influence of Joseph Campbell in Microsoft’s work. Is Campbell a helper in the rediscovery of soul–for the company? As Satya Nadella,...
In this wonderful read, Canadian Olympic athlete Clara Hughes explains why The Hero With A Thousand Faces was the book to help her through lonely years and personal struggle. CBC Books’s article shows that Mythology can...
Actor Andrew Garfield pointed to his reading of Joseph Campbell while preparing to play Spider-Man in a recent article by US Magazine. The article states: “I’d been reading the mythologists, Joseph Campbell and James...
An article from Forbes on Harvard Career Advisor, Gorick Ng, has the author and advisor point to Joseph Campbell and his Hero’s Journey as a template for prospective job hunters when navigating interviews. The...
In discussing season two of his Apple TV+ show, Ted Lasso, actor Jason Sudeikis pointed to Joseph Campbell. Referring to his character’s arc in the new season, “Sudeikis revealed: “It’s our Empire Strikes Back or the...
According to The Escapist Magazine, Joseph Campbell has had more than one influential effect on the popular franchise, Masters of the Universe. In an article from Darren Mooney, the magazine sates: As the narrative...
According to GratefulWeb.com, musician Georgia English is releasing an illustrated album, Pain and Power, that documents English’s personal trauma healing through the lens of Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey tradition. In the article, English states:...
Filmmaker, Zack Snyder shared concept art from his ‘Justice League’ project that envisions Bruce Wayne meeting Green Lantern John Stewart for the first time. He accompanied the image with a quote from Joseph Campbell...
Writer, Jonah Schuhart discussed comments made by Robert Downey Jr. about the resolution of his Iron Man character, where Downey nods to Joseph Campbell and his work around the hero. Quoting Downey, Schuhart writes,...
Designer Ini Archibong discussed Joseph Campbell and storytelling in a personal reflection for The New York Times as part of a series called The Big Ideas in which writers respond to a single question: What do...
Zack Snyder’s epic zombie action film, Army of The Dead, features a scene in its final moments where a key character quotes Joseph Campbell, crediting the mythologist by name. The popular website, Screen Rant,...
Heather McIlvaine-Newsad, commentator for Tri States Public Radio, recently told listeners: “I hope that the stories we tell about this historic time reflect what the late Joseph Campbell called the hero’s journey. Campbell was...
