Big Bads: A Look at the Mythical Adversary
Taught by Charles Dunbar
Charles Dunbar has been lecturing on Japanese culture and media for quite a while. Charles is a graduate of Hunter College, where he received his MA in Anthropology and Religion.
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World mythology is full of archetypal villains, monsters, and evil forces. Some of them are born out of real world fears, and others embody (or advocate) and atypical or flat out rejection of morality as we come to understand it. And still other lie, cheat, wage war, and deceive as the central tenet to their existence.
This lecture explores the origins of the "big bad," godlike villain, devil, deceiver, and all manner of force that advocates chaos, darkness, death, or challenges the world we know, both naturally and supernaturally.
