1st Edition
Somatic Cinema The relationship between body and screen - a Jungian perspective
The Consciously Constructed Film. Being in the Cinema. Reflections of the Body. Being Mindful of the Image. Seeing the Image. Being Touched by the Image. Feeling the Image.
Biography
Luke Hockley is Professor of Media Analysis at the Research Institute for Media, Art and Design (RIMAD) at the University of Bedfordshire. He also works as an integrative psychotherapist in private practice in London and Bedfordshire. He co-edited Jung and Film II: The Return and House: The Wounded Healer on Television.
Drawing on Jung’s assertion that body and mind are indivisible, Luke Hockley develops a masterly analysis of the complex interactions between ritual, therapy and cinema. He introduces to this the concept of embodied affect, arguing that (as in therapy, so in the cinema) when body and mind are both impacted by feeling, the unconscious must be no less involved than consciousness. The resultant account presents an innovative theoretical frame within which to recognise the place of affect in cinema.
John Izod, Emeritus Professor of Film Analysis, University of Stirling
