The New Heroines in Film and Television

This thought-provoking volume offers an overview of contemporary representations of prominent female characters as they appear in an array of moving-image narratives from a Jungian and post-Jungian perspective.

Autorentext

Helena Bassil-Morozow is a senior lecturer in Media and Journalism at Glasgow Caledonian University. Her many publications include Tim Burton: The Monster and the Crowd (Routledge, 2010), The Trickster in Contemporary Film (Routledge, 2011), The Trickster and the System: Identity and Agency in Contemporary Society (Routledge, 2014), Jungian Film Studies: The Essential Guide (Routledge, 2016; co-authored with Luke Hockley), and Jungian Theory for Storytelling: The Essential Guide (Routledge, 2018).

Inhalt

Introduction; 1: The Female Persona; 2: The Female Journey; 3: The Red Woman and the Blue Woman: The Boundaries of the Mask; 4: Bildungsroman: Rejection of the Mask; 5: The Mother; 6: The Female Trickster; Conclusion