Thank you, thank you Katrine! I litterally have goosebumps from reading this! And I haven’t even seen thos movies yet, but I am reading Circe and thought of it even before I realized you were mentioning it.
Hey Katrine, I've just come across your work and subscribed. I loved this post: insightful, provocative and laugh-out-loud funny. I really enjoyed Circe too. It's an interesting challenge to think of female-centred heroic stories. There are some great traditional stories – wonder tales and myths – featuring strong women who walk through the fire for love. And I thought The Hunger Games did a pretty good job of giving a woman a heroic story arc with with bags of feeling.
I'm looking forward to reading Mother of Invention. Great website too by the way. Thanks. Jamie
I read the Campbell book in the '80s and it never occurred to me that women could not also have a hero's journey. I am so angry at him. Our lives are also epic.
Thank you for another amazing, thought-provoking, enraging piece.
On the other hand - this BIG, BIGGER, LOUD, CHEESY, SUPERFICIAL, SIMPLE, EPIC way of telling stories is exactly what many women hate. Many, like myself, prefer the subtle, tongue in check, ironic, quiet stories that reflect the complexity of life. They take up space as well - albeit not in a commercially explosive block-buster way.
Thank you, thank you Katrine! I litterally have goosebumps from reading this! And I haven’t even seen thos movies yet, but I am reading Circe and thought of it even before I realized you were mentioning it.
Stort tack för denna insikt Katrine!
Hey Katrine, I've just come across your work and subscribed. I loved this post: insightful, provocative and laugh-out-loud funny. I really enjoyed Circe too. It's an interesting challenge to think of female-centred heroic stories. There are some great traditional stories – wonder tales and myths – featuring strong women who walk through the fire for love. And I thought The Hunger Games did a pretty good job of giving a woman a heroic story arc with with bags of feeling.
I'm looking forward to reading Mother of Invention. Great website too by the way. Thanks. Jamie
Thanks again.
There is a video on Youtube "the women who saved Stalingrad" by Mark Felton.
It's a big emotion story, but not well known.
I read the Campbell book in the '80s and it never occurred to me that women could not also have a hero's journey. I am so angry at him. Our lives are also epic.
Thank you for another amazing, thought-provoking, enraging piece.
Hear, hear.
Wow! Men are emotional after all ;)
Great analysis. Loved it!
On the other hand - this BIG, BIGGER, LOUD, CHEESY, SUPERFICIAL, SIMPLE, EPIC way of telling stories is exactly what many women hate. Many, like myself, prefer the subtle, tongue in check, ironic, quiet stories that reflect the complexity of life. They take up space as well - albeit not in a commercially explosive block-buster way.
EPIC!! Fascinating analysis, and a brilliant call for better, more fulfilling movies and stories designed for and celebrating heroic women.