Film after Jung : post-Jungian approaches to film theory

Introduction: The image and the material. Part 1 - Film theory: a critical historiography. 1 Film matters, but how, and why?. 2 Film as film; film as art; film as authored artefact. 3 Film and audience, a 'felt' relation: the politics of cine-subjectivity. 4 The film as political: phenomenology and the material world of the film. Part 2 - Applying key Jungian concepts in film theory. 5 Refitting the notion of the gaze: the 'I' that sees and the 'eye' that is seen. 6 Contrasexuality and identification: difference, sameness and gender in film. 7 Narrative and myth, heroes and villaiins, film and television. 8 Synchronicity and space-time transgression in film and videos: case studies in time sculpture and capture

'...provides the reader with an overview of the history of film theory and delves into analytical psychology to consider the reaction that popular film can evoke through emotional and empathetic engagement with its audience.'

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