1st Edition

Tim Burton: The Monster and the Crowd A Post-Jungian Perspective

By Helena Bassil-Morozow Copyright 2010
216 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

Tim Burton’s films are well known for being complex and emotionally powerful. In this book, Helena Bassil-Morozow employs Jungian and post-Jungian concepts of unconscious mental processes along with film semiotics, analysis of narrative devices and cinematic history, to explore the reworking of myth and fairytale in Burton’s gothic fantasy world. The book explores the idea that Burton’s lonely,... Read more

Introduction. The Child. The Monster. The Superhero. The Genius. The Maniac. The Monstrous Society. Conclusion.

Biography

Helena Bassil-Morozow has been teaching Film, Drama and Literature in various further education institutions and in private practice for over five years.

"Brilliantly confirms what we have been suspecting all along – that film studies drawing on Jungian psychology is a genuine advance, here to stay, and capable of extending itself across several generations of authors. Helena Bassil-Morozow approaches the key contemporary question of the relations between individual and crowd via a creative intermingling of a profound engagement with Burton's films and Jung's idea of individuation. The monster we meet in book and film sets off something massive in everyone – that's what this level of writing about the archetypal can do." - Andrew Samuels, University of Essex, UK