Mis/takes: Archetype, Myth and Identity in Screen Fiction eBook

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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.

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9781583917213, 9780203698808

Mis/takes: Archetype, Myth and Identity in Screen Fiction 1st Edition is written by Terrie Waddell and published by Routledge. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Mis/takes are 9781135449698, 1135449694 and the print ISBNs are 9781583917206, 1583917209. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9781583917213, 9780203698808.