Word: mythicize
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...Oates' work. (At thirty-two, she has already written six novels, notably them, which won the National Book Award last year: also a play and a collection of poems). Her women are preoccupied with their identity, their sexuality, their roles, as often manipulators as mercilessly manipulated. Some have the mythic dimensions of the women in Bergman's films or O'Neill's plays; others are enigmatic and fragmented, like Dylan's women in "Blonde on Blonde...
Thus the level and the nature of the dialectic evolve continuously as the terms of the dialectic change. Rocha's dialectical method is a perfect dramatic form: it moves fluidly from the personal to the collective level to the mythic, and back...
...Orson Welles claims, "the most honest film to date about a new life-style." Even if you accept the description of the life-style as a new one, Korty is primarily concerned with his attempt to transform that life-style into a primitive art, burdening his film with mythic resonances and overblown settings which his characters-and his camera-cannot really bear...
From Aesop to Orwell, fables have been populated with animals; yet, the animals have simply been people in a transparent disguise. The fable is the mythic mirror of man, and what he sees there is not his face but his nature...
...work like Alice in Wonderland is mythic as well as classic. Director Andre Gregory has put his finger on the aspects of myth that pulse in all men. Always a director of flashing and flamboyant resourcefulness, Gregory has now taken a stride in depth. His Alice in Wonderland lays bare the primordial, psychogenetic sources of man's visceral and abiding need for theater...