Tag: Tomasz Jacheć

In The Myth of Michael Jordan in Popular Culture (Routledge), Tomasz Jacheć examines the life and career of Michael Jordan, one of the greatest athletes in the history of sports, asking how he transcended his sport to become a canonical myth in popular culture. In his review, Brian Hillman notes that the author uses the framework of the “hero’s journey” from Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), and makes good use of the “mytheme” concept. Our reviewer concludes that Jacheć’s effort is an exemplary academic engagement with popular culture.

Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research is an open access journal with a wide scope encompassing sociology, history, philosophy and other disciplines within the social sciences and humanities. It’s the journal of Josef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw and International Society for the Social Sciences of Sport.