No. 22 (2024): Il Prometeo digitale: cinema, mito e narrazioni del futuro
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Notes on the rewriting of the Kali Yuga myth in cinema (from Lynch to Tarkovsky)

Adriano Ercolani
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Published 21-01-2025

Keywords

  • Archetypes,
  • Joseph Campbell,
  • Hero’s Journey,
  • Twin Peaks,
  • Andrej Tarkovskij

Abstract

The purpose of this contribution is to address the re-mediation of myth in cinema from a specific perspective: not to examine the frequent modern reinterpretations of classical myths, but to showcase a possibility of myth re-creation that remains faithful to the sacred and mysterious dimension from which the mythological vision originally emerged.