Myth, Mind and the ScreenUnderstanding the heroes of our time
Myth,MindandtheScreen
isasystematicattempttoapplyJungiantheorytotheanalysisoffilms(including
2001:ASpaceOdyssey,TheSilenceoftheLambs
and
The Piano
) as well as a variety of cultural icons and productssuch as Madonna, Michael Jackson and televised sport. Through theseand other examples, John Izod shows how Jungian theory can bringnew tools to film and media studies and new ways of understandingscreenimagesandnarratives.HealsodemonstrateshowJungiananalysiscan provide us with fresh insights into the psychological dimensions of contemporary mythology and the subjective experience of audiences.Perhapsmostcontroversially,hearguesthatintheWesternworldcinemaand television bear much of the responsibility for collective emotionalmediation that in previous centuries was borne by organised religion. Avaluableresourceforstudentsoffilmandmediastudies,culturalstudiesand psychoanalytic studies.
JOHN IZOD
isProfessorofScreenAnalysisintheDepartmentofFilmandMediaStudies,UniversityofStirling.Heistheauthorof
ReadingtheScreen
(1984),
Satellite, Cable and Beyond
(with Alastair Hetherington,1984),
Hollywood and the Box Office
(1988),
The Films of Nicolas Roeg: Myth and Mind
(1992), and
An Introduction to Television Documentary:Confronting Reality
(with Richard Kilborn, 1997).
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