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What is Myth

Chapter 11
Examinations and Analysis of Sequels and Serials in the Film Industry
These are the stories that human societies tell in order to interpret the universe, the world and nature.
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Lévi-Straussian Structural Analysis of the Western Myth in Star Wars: May the Force Be With Who!
Işıl Tombul (Independent Researcher, Turkey) and Nilüfer Pembecioğlu (Istanbul University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-7864-6.ch011
Abstract
The Star Wars film series, which began in the 1970s and has since continued with trilogies, spin-offs, prequels, and sequels, is a space western with science fiction elements that depicts a story built on power. The central conflict in the Star Wars films is rooted in dichotomies like good-evil, light-dark, and those who possess the force versus those who do not. Due to this, the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss's binary opposition model, which he used in structural analysis of the myths, is appropriate for evaluating the films. This study dwells upon the binary oppositions in the 2017 movie The Last Jedi, the second installment of the third trilogy. The study aims to question how the power phenomena is constructed mythically. Hollywood movies play a crucial role in the global dissemination of Western mythology. Thus, the ideological connotations created by popular culture were revealed.
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Chapter 4
Formative Assessment and Feedback in Higher Education: Preparing Spanish Academics to Teach in a Digital World
False beliefs or ideas that are often passed down through tradition or culture. They can relate to a variety of subjects and can be based on superstition, misinformation, or misinterpretation of facts.
Published in Chapter: Formative Assessment and Feedback in Higher Education: Preparing Spanish Academics to Teach in a Digital World; From: Formative and Shared Assessment to Promote Global University Learning
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Chapter 4
Overcoming Barriers
An exaggerated or idealized conception of a person or thing (Oxford, 2020).
Published in Chapter: Overcoming Barriers; From: Hispanic Women/Latina Leaders Overcoming Barriers in Higher Education
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Chapter 26
Transposition of the Public Events With Violent Visual: Case of PETA
The folk tale of mythology, which is an allegorical narrative that traditionally spreads or changes shape with the imagination of the society.
Published in Chapter: Transposition of the Public Events With Violent Visual: Case of PETA; From: Handbook of Research on Aestheticization of Violence, Horror, and Power
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Chapter 10
Demystifying Shared Leadership
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Chapter 10
Myths, Fake News, Tirades, and Diatribes and the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Can Libraries Do?
Emblematic chronicle usually of a mysterious derivation and at least semi- traditional, that supposedly relates definite events and that is specially connected with religious belief.
Published in Chapter: Myths, Fake News, Tirades, and Diatribes and the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Can Libraries Do?; From: Library and Media Roles in Information Hygiene and Managing Information
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Chapter 9
The Legacy of the Terrible Mother Archetype in Post-War British Drama: Ann Jellicoe's The Sport of My Mad Mother
In classical Greek, mythos signified any story or plot, either true or invented. In its central modern significance, however, a myth is one story in a mythology—a system of hereditary stories of ancient origin which were once believed to be true by a particular cultural group, and which served to explain why the world is as it is and things happen as they do, to provide a rationale for social customs and observances, and to establish the sanctions for the rules by which people conduct their lives.
Published in Chapter: The Legacy of the Terrible Mother Archetype in Post-War British Drama: Ann Jellicoe's The Sport of My Mad Mother; From: Handbook of Research on Translating Myth and Reality in Women Imagery Across Disciplines
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Chapter 17
The Myth of E-Government
Something that is believed to be true by those who attach significance to it but could be questioned by others. In this context, a myth is considered as an institutionalised organisational recipe which is believed to cause certain effects if it is implemented.
Published in Chapter: The Myth of E-Government; From: Handbook of Research on ICT-Enabled Transformational Government: A Global Perspective
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Chapter 22
The Use of Myths as an Advertisement Strategy at the Age of Social Media
A narrative form, especially one concerning the early history of people or explaining a natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events.
Published in Chapter: The Use of Myths as an Advertisement Strategy at the Age of Social Media; From: Handbook of Research on Effective Advertising Strategies in the Social Media Age
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Chapter 22
Marketing Meat Alternatives: Meat Myths and Their Replication in Advertising for Plant-Based Meat
A rigid and widely-held belief about a sensitive topic in society which is difficult to criticise and is hardly mutable.
Published in Chapter: Marketing Meat Alternatives: Meat Myths and Their Replication in Advertising for Plant-Based Meat; From: Handbook of Research on Social Marketing and Its Influence on Animal Origin Food Product Consumption
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Chapter 14
Reconciling Not Eating Meat and Masculinity in the Marketing Discourse for New Food Alternatives
A widely held belief or set of ideas which are wrong and not based on convincing scientific evidence.
Published in Chapter: Reconciling Not Eating Meat and Masculinity in the Marketing Discourse for New Food Alternatives; From: Environmental, Health, and Business Opportunities in the New Meat Alternatives Market
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Chapter 4
America in the Camera Obscura of Nigerian “Videastes”: A Study of Peters Roberts' 30 Days in Atlanta and George Kalu's Life is Hard in America
A culture’s way of understanding, expressing and communicating to itself concepts that are important to its self-identity as a culture.
Published in Chapter: America in the Camera Obscura of Nigerian “Videastes”: A Study of Peters Roberts' 30 Days in Atlanta and George Kalu's Life is Hard in America; From: Popular Representations of America in Non-American Media
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Eastern Male Image in Contemporary Oriental Media: The Novel and Movie of The Lustful Turk
A traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining a natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events.
Published in Chapter: Eastern Male Image in Contemporary Oriental Media: The Novel and Movie of The Lustful Turk; From: Handbook of Research on Contemporary Approaches to Orientalism in Media and Beyond
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Vitalizing Ancient Cultures Mythological Storytelling in Metal Music
A narrative genre that explains the values of a society (its belief, philosophy, lifestyle, guidance, art etc.) it emerges into through supernatural events and people.
Published in Chapter: Vitalizing Ancient Cultures Mythological Storytelling in Metal Music; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
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Chapter 11
The Ethics of Risk in Psychiatry: The Interplay Between Risk and Probability
A fictitious story that is told by the people of a society or of a civilization on a subject-matter and that cannot be entirely rationalized, leaving a sort of affective or imaginative remainder.
Published in Chapter: The Ethics of Risk in Psychiatry: The Interplay Between Risk and Probability; From: Ethics in Research Practice and Innovation
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