Dreams, Vampires and Ghosts

Anthropological Perspectives on the Sacred and Psychology in Film and Television

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

AvLouise Child,UK) Child, Louise (Cardiff University

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Drawing from social theory and the anthropology of religion, this book explores popular media’s fascination with dreams, vampires, demons, ghosts and spirits. Dreams, Vampires and Ghosts does so in the light of contemporary animist studies of societies in which other-than-human persons are not merely a source of entertainment, but a lived social reality.Films and television programs explored include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twin Peaks, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Truly Madly Deeply and the films of Hitchcock. Louise Child draws attention to how they both depict and challenge ideas and practices rooted in psychology, while quality television has also facilitated a wave of programming that can explore the interaction of characters in complex social worlds over time. In addition to drawing on theories of film from Freudian psychology and feminist theory, Dreams, Vampires and Ghosts uses approaches derived from a combination of Jungian film studies and anthropology that offer fresh insights for exploring film and television.This book draws attention to explicit and subtle ways in which cinematic narratives engage with myth and religion while at the same time exploring collective dimensions to social and personal life. It advances new developments in genre studies and gender as well as contributing to the growing field of implicit religion using in-depth analyses of communicative dreaming, the shadow, and mystical lovers in film and television.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-08-10
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor194
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350087101

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Film inom Kultur
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Antropologi inom Samhalle och politik

1. Dreaming: Anthropology, Psychology, and the Study of Film and Television2. Dreams as Detection: Trauma and Psychology in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock3. Animism, Anima, and the Shadow in Twin Peaks4. A Fairy Tale Heroine: Buffy the Vampire Slayer5. Ghosts and Spirits: Ghost, Poltergeist, and Afterlife.6. Dreams Reprise: Mad Love, Mesmerism, and Mystical Participation in Heavenly Creatures and Bram Stoker’s DraculaConclusionBibliographyIndex

Louise Child’s book, Dreams, Vampires and Ghosts: Anthropological Perspectives on the Sacred and Psychology in Film and Television, offers a thoughtful and skillfully crafted examination of the presence of symbols, themes, and motifs commonly linked to psychoanalysis and animistic belief systems in modern film and television. The seriousness with which Child, lecturer in religious studies at Cardiff University (UK), engages her subject, and its presentation in a straightforward, jargon-free manner, results in a text appropriate for both academic and popular audiences.