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wild lives trickster place and liminality on screen
p wild lives draws on myth popular culture and analytical psychology to trace the machinations of trickster in contemporary film and television . this archetypal energy traditionally gravitates toward liminal spaces physical locations and shifting states of mind . by focusing on productions set in remote or isolated spaces terrie waddell explores how key trickster infused sites of transition reflect the psychological fragility of their willing and unwilling occupants . in differing ways the selected texts deadwood grizzly man lost solaris the biggest loser amores perros and repulsion all play with inner and outer marginality . p as this study demonstrates the dramatic potential of transition is not always geared toward resolution . prolonging the anxiety of change is an increasingly popular option . trickster moves within this wildness and instability to agitate a form of dialogue between conscious and unconscious processes . p waddells imaginative interpretation of screen material and her original positioning of trickster will inspire students of media cinema gender and jungian studies as well as academics with an interest in the application of post jungian ideas to screen culture .
other routledge 2009 isbn13 9780415420426 isbn10 0415420423
abridged n isbn 13 9780415420426 number in series 1 number of pages 216 publisher routledge release date 62135769600000