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The Power of Myth
The 1988 PBS series and companion book — six hours of Bill Moyers interviewing Campbell at Skywalker Ranch in 1985-86 — that brought the monomyth to a mass audience and produced both Campbell's cultural influence and the mass misreading of follow your bliss.
The Power of Myth is the television series and companion book that transformed Joseph Campbell from a respected academic figure into a household name — one year after his death. Filmed at George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch during 1985 and 1986, the six episodes were broadcast on PBS in the summer of 1988, became the highest-rated series in PBS history to that point, and produced a companion book that became one of the most widely read works of comparative mythology ever published. The series is the primary vehicle through which Campbell's ideas entered popular consciousness, for better and for worse.
In The You On AI Field Guide
The conversations between Campbell and Moyers follow a loose thematic structure — the hero's journey, the first storytellers, sacrifice and bliss, love and marriage, masks of eternity — but their unifying feature is Moyers's pragmatic insistence on asking what