Jung & Analytical Psychology in Film Studies

House: The Wounded Healer on Television

Jungian and Post-Jungian Reflections

House: The Wounded Healer on Television
  • Edited by Luke Hockley, and Leslie Gardner.

Published December 2010

House MD is a globally successful and long-running medical drama. House: the Wounded Healer on Television employs a Jungian perspective to examine the psychological construction of the series and its namesake, Dr Gregory House. The book also investigates the extent to which the continued…
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Tim Burton: The Monster and the Crowd

A Post-Jungian Perspective

Tim Burton: The Monster and the Crowd
  • By Helena Bassil-Morozow.

Published February 2010

Tim Burton’s films are well known for being complex and emotionally powerful. In this book, Helena Bassil-Morozow employs Jungian and post-Jungian concepts of unconscious mental processes along with film semiotics, analysis of narrative devices and cinematic history, to explore the reworking of…
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Wild/lives

Trickster, Place and Liminality on Screen

Wild/lives
  • By Terrie Waddell.

Published September 2009

Wild/lives draws on myth, popular culture and analytical psychology to trace the machinations of 'trickster' in contemporary film and television. This archetypal energy traditionally gravitates toward liminal spaces – physical locations and shifting states of mind. By focusing on productions set in…
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Film After Jung

Post-Jungian Approaches to Film Theory

Film After Jung
  • By Greg Singh.

Published May 2009

Popular film as a medium of communication, expression and storytelling has proved one of the most durable and fascinating cultural forms to emerge during the twentieth century, and has long been the object of debate, discussion and interpretation. Film After Jung provides the reader with an…
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Screen, Culture, Psyche

A Post Jungian Approach to Working with the Audience

Screen, Culture, Psyche
  • By John Izod.

Published July 2006

Screen, Culture, Psyche illuminates recent developments in Jungian modes of media analysis, and illustrates how psychoanalytic theories have been adapted to allow for the interpretation of films and television programmes, employing Post-Jungian methods in the deep reading of a whole range of films.…
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Mis/takes

Archetype, Myth and Identity in Screen Fiction

Mis/takes
  • By Terrie Waddell.

Published June 2006

Mis/takes departs from the bulk of screen discourse by applying Jungian and Post-Jungian ideas on unconscious processes to popular film and television. This perspective offers a rich insight into the way that various myths infiltrate popular culture. By examining the function of psychological…
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Jung and Film

Post-Jungian Takes on the Moving Image

Jung and Film
  • Edited by Christopher Hauke, and Ian Alister.

Published June 2001

Jung and Film brings together some of the best new writing from both sides of the Atlantic, introducing the use of Jungian ideas in film analyis. Illustrated with examinations of seminal films including Pulp Fiction, Blade Runner, and 2001 - A Space Odyssey, Chris Hauke and Ian Alister, along with…
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