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.
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.
Waddell's 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.
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