This is revisiting only in a general sense. During discussion in my political science class this morning, I had occasion to refer to Joseph Campbell. My students had not heard of him, so I gave some quick background, referring to the usual anchors of his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces and how George Lucas based his Star Wars story on Campbell’s teachings about mythology, etc.

Anyway, after class I still had the Wikipedia article on Campbell open, which I had pulled up just to have a visual that students could look at while I talked about him. And somehow in doing that, I came across all of the bill Moyers interviews with Joseph Campbell from the late 1989s.

Cool! I have the series at home on VHS tape. Not particularly convenient. But I have been wanting to go through them again, and now it’s easy. Not only are the videos available in one place, but there are also transcripts of each interview’s conversation.

You can link here to BillMoyers.com, a website that has the entire collection of interview videos on one page. When you click on each, it takes you from the thumbnail to the actual video, and below the video is the transcript of that episode, which I love. Although I enjoy video interviews, I can read a transcript so much faster. Nice to have both right there together.

Link: https://billmoyers.com/series/joseph-campbell-and-the-power-of-myth-1988/

Enjoy!