Christopher Vogler

Christopher Vogler is an American screenwriter and journalist, known for his work in the field of screenwriting.

Life

Christopher Vogler is a staff member of the prestigious Film Department of the USC ( University of Southern California) in the field of material development and author support. He is head of the Materials Development Department of TwentiethCentury Fox, Fox 2000. At the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA) was at the time of appointment Vogler 1975 mainly Aristotle's doctrine of the Poetics, taught some Greek and Roman drama and Shakespeare. For Vogler it was important to use a larger theoretical framework, which also includes the dimensions of emotional and spiritual. In his book " The Writer 's Journey " ( Odyssey of the screenplay writer, 1998) he describes the universality of narrative structures. This he relates significantly from the studies of mythologist Joseph Campbell, " A hero with a thousand faces" and the archetypes of the Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung. Vogler describes the " Hero's Journey " as a kind of " Monomyth ", which is all the stories as a basis underlying. It is to the passage of different tests, challenges and problems, which consists of the hero throughout its history and the Vogler sees as the continuity of the individual soul through life.

Works

• The odyssey of the screenwriter ( The Writer 's Journey ). Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-86150-228-3.