“My hope is that I’m getting to bring one of the greatest hypocrites to life in a way that will both make people laugh and also make them recognize that archetype.”

The film’s core question is: How have men and women worked so hard to overcome toxic archetypes and still wound up stuck here?

It can all be felt in “My Mom Jayne,” the emotional and revealing documentary about Mansfield, an actor who epitomized the blond bombshell archetype of the 1950s, that premieres at 8 p.m.

Moyers made a posthumous star out of a literature professor at Sarah Lawrence College with the landmark 1988 PBS series “Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth,” an exploration of religious and mythological archetypes.

Taken together, they sketch the outline of a new archetype: one that embraces strength not as a side effect of discipline, but as a defining trait.