Mis/takes Mis/takes

Mis/takes

Archetype, Myth and Identity in Screen Fiction

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Beschreibung des Verlags

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 motifs and symbols in cinema and television, Terrie Waddell opens up another way of thinking about how identity can be constructed and disrupted. Mulholland Drive, Memento, The Others, The X-Files, Twin Peaks, The Sopranos, Spider, Intimacy and Absolutely Fabulous all lend themselves to this approach.

The close analysis of these films/programs are guided by a number of core archetypes from trickster and Self to incest and the grotesque. The book’s four parts reflect these dominant patterns:

Jung, trickster and the screen

Mistaken identities, self-deception and the undead

Redeemers, bad dads and matricide

Excesses of the sad and the sassy



Mis/takes gives readers a chance to engage with screen material in an original and subversive way. This study will be of great interest to Jungian analysts and students of film, cultural studies, media, gender studies and analytical psychology.

GENRE
Kultur und Unterhaltung
ERSCHIENEN
2012
10. September
SPRACHE
EN
Englisch
UMFANG
232
Seiten
VERLAG
Taylor and Francis
GRÖSSE
2,2
 MB

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