Myth, Mind and the Screen: Understanding the Heroes of our Time

by John Izod

This systematic attempt to apply Jungian theory to the analysis of films covers 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Silence of the Lambs and The Piano as well as a variety of cultural icons and products such as Madonna, Michael Jackson and televised sport. Through these and other examples, John Izod demonstrates how Jungian theory can bring new tools to film and media studies and new ways of understanding screen images and narratives.

250 pages, Paperback

First published December 5, 1997

Reviews

[kate]

The revelation of this book: science fiction superheroes and films are an attempt to lend the attributes of superpowers to the bespectacled reassuredness of rational thought.


Movies 2002-2018 given context, I feel a slight sense of relief at the notion of humanity unconsciously seeking a more rational outlook amid the din of a telecommunications glut starring the 'non-thought of received ideas' (see my review of Kundera's 'Art of the Novel').

Mr. Izod reviews some terrible movies and some very good films, in an analysis of the hero and its psychic development in the 21st century, male and female. His discussion of anima is helpful.