This book discusses the role of the trickster in contemporary film against the cultural imperatives and social issues of modernity and postmodernity, and argues that cinematic tricksters reflect psychological, economic and social change in society.
Helena Bassil-Morozow and Luke Hockley present Jungian Film Studies: The essential guide, the first book to bring together all the different strands, issues and... Læs mere
This book offers an analytical paradigm to examine relationships between tricksters and systems, change and stability, in a range of contexts.
This book 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 myth and fairytale in Burton's gothic fantasy world.