The Film Hero and Welsh Mythology

Abstract

The genre of fantasy has translated well, for the most part, to the cinema, and a great many films have drawn from Welsh myth in order to portray heroes to inspire the cinema audiences of the late twentieth century and onwards. In practice, and in some fantasy literature, heroes might be male or female; but in spite of the supposedly ‘liberated’ times in which this analysis is being written, film heroes are still male and the accepted traditional paradigms of masculine heroism are rarely violated or departed from.