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Luke Hockley, Catriona Miller, Greg Singh, Terrie Waddell - Cinema and the Political Frame, Inbunden

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Cinema and the Political Frame

Jung, Politics, Culture

Av Luke Hockley, Catriona Miller, Greg Singh, Terrie Waddell

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Exploring core concepts in film studies through a political Jungian and cultural lens, this book demonstrates how film is understood not only as story, but as a site in which cultural assumptions and ideological structures are examined.Chapter one begins with the Heroes’ Journey, examining how Hollywood flattens the mythology of the theory to create homogenised content using monomyths that fail to challenge the audience; instead serving Hollywood’s neoliberal ideology and patriarchal foundations. Chapter two explores the libidinal transgressions of Lydia Tár and Lee Miller using a fictional and historical figure as provocative examples of an artist-art and Jungian inflected libido-ego dynamic. In the second half of the book, viewer-screen relations are broken down to discuss how streaming services have politicised the cinematic frame while presenting the audience with the illusion of choice through curated recommendations, and what the algorithm allows us to consume. The final chapter delves into permacrisis, impostor syndrome, and the (Posthuman) AI unconscious’ through the award-winning multi-verse narrative of Everything Everywhere All at Once.Providing a lively discourse with mass appeal, this interdisciplinary book is recommended for psychologists, therapists, graduate students in both analytical psychology and film studies, alongside film enthusiasts.
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Luke Hockley is Emeritus Professor at the University of Bedfordshire and Honorary Professor at the University of Essex. His research explores cinema, Jungian psychology, embodiment and cultural meaning-making.Catriona Miller is Professor in Media at Glasgow Caledonian University. Her research examines Jungian approaches to screen media, mythology, gender, identity, horror and contemporary popular culture.Greg Singh is Professor in Media and Society at the University of Stirling. His research explores media, culture, technology, depth psychology, digital ethics and the relationships between connectivity, recognition and society.Terrie Waddell is Adjunct Associate Professor in Languages and Cultures at La Trobe University, Australia. Her research explores screen media, mythology, gender, identity and cultural experience through analytical psychology.

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'Cinema and The Political Frame is an important book because it gives the reader tools to approach the dangerously permeable intersection of psyche and power. It demonstrates the way cinema has become engulfed by capitalist cyberspace, which in turn colonizes the psyche. Utilizing four related yet distinct lenses, these scholars uncover a politically dynamic aspect of the collective. The studies variously reveal a wilderness of toxic masculinity disguised as archetype (Miller), the expansive erotic (Waddell), the seductive employment of imperialist algorithms (Hockley) and perils of postmodern capital (Singh). In cinema, archetypes and ideology are intertwined, the book shows. Within the titanic wave of digital capital, less separates A.I. from human appetites than is assumed. How might cinema today operate to undermine what Jung called individuation? Read this book if you care about the psyche in politics and vice versa.'Susan Rowland, PhD, teaches at Pacifica Graduate Institute in California and has written many books on Jung, the arts and gender. Her latest is with Joel Weishaus, Jungian Arts-Based Research and the Nuclear Enchantment of New Mexico (Routledge 2021).

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