Terrie Waddell

The Lost Child Complex in Australian Film

Jung, Story and Playing Beneath the Past

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Lost Child Complex in Australian Film, Terrie Waddell looks at the concept of the 'lost child' from a psychological and cultural perspective. Taking an interdisciplinary Jungian approach, she re-evaluates this cyclic storytelling motif in history, literature, and the creative arts, as the nucleus of a cultural complex.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781138939684
• ISBN-10: 1138939684
• Artikelnr.: 56875857

Autorenporträt

Terrie Waddell, PhD, is Associate Professor of Screen Studies at La Trobe University, Australia. She researches and publishes on the relationships connecting screen media, myth, literature, gender, popular culture, and Jungian based psychology and is the author of Routledge's Mis/takes: Archetype, Myth and Identity in Screen Fiction, Wild/lives: Trickster, Place and Liminality on Screen and a contributor to The International Handbook of Jungian Film Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part One: The Lost Child Complex - A Cultural and Screen History. Chapter 1: Beginnings: Complex, Settlement, Cultural memory
Chapter 2: Literally Lost: Searchers, the Searched For and Grail Metaphors
Chapter 3: Celebrating Defeat: The Blooded Child of War and Sport
Part Two: Double Wounding
Chapter 4: Double Wounding: Imposing Lostness
Chapter 5: Inner and Outer Twinning: Parent as Lost Child/Lost Child as Parent
Part Three: Inner Children and the Victory Complex
Chapter 6: Stuck in the Past: Lost Child as Earworm
Chapter 7: The Victory Complex: Nostalgia for the American Dream and the Art of the Win
Concluding remarks
Index.