1904-1987

"A wide-ranging collection of insights from legendary mythologist Joseph Campbell compiled from rare and previously unpublished interviews. Includes some of Campbell's most thoughtful responses to an array of interviewers, including the historian Studs Terkel, journalists from notable publications, and even audience members at various seminars"--.

Poetry. This anthology presents a group of writers and a literary phenomenon that has been unknown even to Russian readers for 70 years, obfuscated by historical amnesia. Gennady Gor, Pavel Zaltsman, Dmitry Maksimov, Sergey Rudakov, and Vladimir Sterligov wrote these works in 1942, during the most severe winter of the Nazi Siege of Leningrad (1941-1944). In striking contrast to state-sanctioned, heroic "Blockade" poetry in which the stoic body of the exemplary citizen triumphs over death, the poems gathered here show the Siege individual (blokadnik) as a weak and desperate incarnation of Job. These poets wrote in situ about the famine, disease, madness, cannibalism, and prostitution around themsubjects so tabooed in those most-Soviet times that they would never think of publishing. Moreover, the formal ambition and macabre avant-gardism of this uncanny body of work match its horrific content, giving birth to a "poor" language which alone could reflect the depth of suffering and psychological destruction experienced by victims of that historical disaster.

Conversations between Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers, a television journalist, discussing mythology and our ties to the past.

Presents interviews with mythologist Joseph Campbell and notable people he inspired including poet Robert Bly, anthropologist Angeles Arrien, and filmmaker David Kennard.

Scholar Joseph Campbell sits down with journalist Bill Moyers for a discussion about how myths reveal truths about the human experience.

An exhilarating journey into the mind and spirit of a remarkable man, a legendary teacher, and a masterful storyteller, conducted by TV journalist Bill Moyers in the acclaimed PBS series.

This documentary mentions Campbell's affinity for the writings of James Joyce and Carl Jung, and there is ample footage of Campbell, casual in flannel shirts, giving lectures salted with references to Buddhism, Christianity, classical mythology, St. Augustine, and the rituals of plains Indians. In later life, Campbell is seen being honored at a banquet at which George Lucas rises to give him credit for helping to inspire the writing of Star Wars. After Campbell's death in 1987, heated controversies arose about his work, but this documentary is an overwhelmingly positive look at his writings, lectures, and personality.

Conversations between Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers, a television journalist, discussing mythology and our ties to the past.