Kenneth Fredheim‘s Master Thesis, written at the (Department of Foreign Languages and Translation of the Faculty of Humanities and Education of) University of Agder in Norway, bears the title: “Star Wars as Modern Myth: A Comparative Analysis of George Lucas’s Star Wars and Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With a Thousand Face.” The 65 page, 4.2 MB PDF document (+ 4 pages bibliography + 11 pages of appendix of images) is currently available at Bibsys.no.
A quote from its conclusion:
In 1977, Star Wars addressed the syzygy of positive and negative possibilities inherent in technology and provided hope for the future. As the world grows increasingly secular, as technological development and scientific discovery continue at an exponential rate and as the world becomes both more fragmented and unified at the same time, this thesis posits that the themes of Star Wars are as relevant today as they were over thirty years ago. As such, Star Wars truly is a modern myth.