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Screen, culture, psyche : a post-Jungian approach to working with the audience / John Izod.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.ISBN:
  • 0415380171
  • 9780415380171
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4301 IZO
Contents:
Barry Lyndon and the limits of understanding -- The hero as failure : Stanley Kubrick\'s Eyes wide shut -- What the camera took : Bernardo Bertolucci\'s Stealing beauty -- Personal and national politics in Bernardo Bertolucci\'s Besieged -- The politics of youth remembered : Bernardo Bertolucci\'s The dreamers -- Anima and the political dynamics of cultural stasis : the case of S1møne -- Myths in British documentaries of the 1980s and 1990s -- Westerns, local, and global imperialism.
Review: Screen, Culture, Psyche illuminates recent developments in Jungian modes of media analysis, and illustrates how psychoanalytic theories have been adapted to allow for the interpretation of films and television programmes, employing post-Jungian methods in the deep reading of a whole range of films.Summary: Through detailed readings of a number of films and programmes, John Izod builds on the work previously done by Jungian film analysts, and moves on to contemplate the level of audience engagement. Offering deep readings of films directed by Kubrick and Bernardo Bertolucci, as well as satirical comedy, documentaries and twenty-first century Westerns, the book explores the extent to which they manage to make the psychological impact on spectators that films of a similar kind have done on Jungian writers.--Jacket.
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Standard Loan Clonmel Library Main Collection 791.4301 IZO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100621946

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-232) and index.

Includes filmography.

Barry Lyndon and the limits of understanding -- The hero as failure : Stanley Kubrick\'s Eyes wide shut -- What the camera took : Bernardo Bertolucci\'s Stealing beauty -- Personal and national politics in Bernardo Bertolucci\'s Besieged -- The politics of youth remembered : Bernardo Bertolucci\'s The dreamers -- Anima and the political dynamics of cultural stasis : the case of S1møne -- Myths in British documentaries of the 1980s and 1990s -- Westerns, local, and global imperialism.

Screen, Culture, Psyche illuminates recent developments in Jungian modes of media analysis, and illustrates how psychoanalytic theories have been adapted to allow for the interpretation of films and television programmes, employing post-Jungian methods in the deep reading of a whole range of films.

Through detailed readings of a number of films and programmes, John Izod builds on the work previously done by Jungian film analysts, and moves on to contemplate the level of audience engagement. Offering deep readings of films directed by Kubrick and Bernardo Bertolucci, as well as satirical comedy, documentaries and twenty-first century Westerns, the book explores the extent to which they manage to make the psychological impact on spectators that films of a similar kind have done on Jungian writers.--Jacket.

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