ABSTRACT
As a cinema screenwriter and director I have always worked with mythological tropes and narratives. While film theory and criticism has focused less on this aspect of the film text, the literature of screenwriting abounds with accounts of mythic paradigms around the hero's quest, which It Is claimed directly influences the structure of film narrative. Robert McKee references a classical precedent going back to Aristotle and Greek tragedy, while Joseph Campbell and Christopher Vogler cite the idea of a universal "mono-myth" as the basis of both the form and content of cinema narrative. These works have had a significant effect on the production of US and European cinema.
