The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Joseph Campbell's 1949 synthesis of world mythology — arguing that all myths share a common structure (the monomyth or Hero's Journey) derived from Jungian archetypes — the foundational text for narrative theory and screenwriting.

Creates the monomyth framework — The Hero with a Thousand Faces synthesizes hundreds of world myths to argue they share the same deep structure; the framework became the dominant paradigm for understanding narrative in screenwriting, storytelling, and comparative religion.