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Cinema as Therapy - Grief and transformational film (Paperback)
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Cinema as Therapy - Grief and transformational film (Paperback)
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Loss is an inescapable reality of life, and individuals need to
develop a capacity to grieve in order to mature and live life to
the full. Yet most western movie audiences live in cultures that do
not value this necessary process and filmgoers finding themselves
deeply moved by a particular film are often left wondering why. In
Cinema as Therapy, John Izod and Joanna Dovalis set out to fill a
gap in work on the conjunction of grief, therapy and cinema.
Looking at films including Million Dollar Baby, The Son's Room,
Birth and The Tree of Life, Cinema as Therapy offers an
understanding of how deeply emotional life can be stirred at the
movies. Izod and Dovalis note that cinema is a medium which engages
people in a virtual dialogue with their own and their culture's
unconscious, more deeply than is commonly thought. By analysing the
meaning of each film and the root cause of the particular losses
featured, the authors demonstrate how our experiences in the movie
theatre create an opportunity to prepare psychologically for the
inevitable losses we must all eventually face. In recognising that
the movie theatre shares symbolic features with both the church and
the therapy room, the reader sees how it becomes a sacred space
where people can encounter the archetypal and ease personal
suffering through laughter or tears, without inhibition or fear, to
reach a deeper understanding of themselves. Cinema as Therapy will
be essential reading for therapists, students and academics working
in film studies and looking to engage with psychological studies in
depth as well as filmgoers who want to explore their relationship
with the screen. The book includes a glossary of Jungian and
Freudian terms which enhances the clarity of the text and the
understanding of the reader.
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