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journal article		The Grotesque, dionysos, trickster and the Patsy/Edina dyad : archetypal fusion and Absolutely Fabulous in Practice (Summer 1996/97) iss.1 p.22-32 Author: Waddell, Terrie PhysDes: Article; Bibliography; Illustration(s) Subject: WOMEN ON TV; ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS [TV] (UK, 1992 - 1996) Summary: The article explores the themes of transgression, carnivalesque spectacle, the grotesque and dionysos, in relation to the television series 'Absolutely Fabulous'. More info
Online resource book		The lost child complex in Australian film : Jung, story and playing beneath the past / Terrie Waddell Abingdon, Oxon : New York: Routledge, 2019. Available at ProQuest (RMIT login required) Call No: 11378 Author: Waddell, Terrie Edition: 2019 Place: Abingdon, Oxon : New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2019 PhysDes: vii, 162 pages ; 24 cm Subject: AUSTRALIA; BABADOOK , THE (AT, Jennifer Kent, 2014); BEAUTIFUL KATE (AT, Rachel Ward, 2009); CHILD ABUSE; CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA; FRAN (AT, Glenda Hambly, 1985); LION (AT, Garth Davis, 2016); MANGANINNIE (AT, John Honey, 1980); ORANGES AND SUNSHINE (UK/AT, Jim Loach, 2011); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (AT, Phillip Noyce, 2001); ROMULUS, MY FATHER (AT, Richard Roxburgh, 2007); SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING, THE (AT, Richard Flanagan, 1998); WINFREY, OPRAH Summary: Waddell explores ‘the lost child’ in its many manifestations, as an element of the individual and collective psyche, historically related to the trauma of colonisation and war, and as key theme in Australian cinema from the industry’s formative years to the present day. The films discussed in textual depth transcend literal lost in the bush mythologies, or actual cases of displaced children, to focus on vulnerable children renderedlost through government and institutional practices, and adult/parental characters developmentally arrested by comforting or traumatic childhood memories. The victory/winning fixation governing the USA – diametrically opposed to the lost child motif – is also discussed as a comparative example of the mesmerising nature of the cultural complex. Examining iconic characters and events, such as the Gallipoli Campaign and Trump’s presidency, and films such as The Babadook, Lion, and Predestination, this book scrutinises the way in which a culture talks to itself, about itself. This analysis looks beyond the melancholy traditionally ascribed to the lost child, by arguing that the repetitive and prolific imagery that this theme stimulates, can be positive and inspiring. The Lost Child Complex in Australian Film is a unique and compelling work which will be highly relevant for academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian ideas, cultural studies, screen and media studies. It will also appeal to Jungian psychotherapists and analytical psychologists as well as readers with a broader interest in Australian history and politics. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9781138939691 More info
journal article		Media and society : an introduction in Metro (2000) iss.123 p.140-141 Author: Waddell, Terrie PhysDes: Book review; Illustration(s) Subject: MEDIA STUDIES Summary: A review of 'Media and society: an introduction', by Michael O'Shaughnessy. More info
To purchase book		Mis/takes : acrhetype, myth and identity in screen fiction / by Terrie Waddell Routledge, 2006. Call No: YET TO PURCHASE Author: Waddell, Terrie Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2006 Summary: "Mis/takes departs from the bulk of screen discourse by applying Jungian and post-Jungian ideas on unconscious processes to popular film and television. This perspective offers a rich insight into the intertextual fusing and reworking of myth in contemporary screen texts. By examining the function of archetypal motifs in cinema and television, Terrie Waddell opens up another way of thinking about how identity can be constructed and disrupted. The following films and programs under analysis have been selected for their relevance to analytical psychology: Mulholland Drive, Memento, The Others, The X-Files, Twin Peaks, The Sopranos, Spider, Intimacy and Absolutely Fabulous. Each of the book's four sections explore the impact of a number of core psychological patterns and symbols: · Jung, Trickster and the Screen · Mistaken Identities, Self-Deception and the Undead · Redeemers, Bad Dads and Matricide · Excesses of the Sad and the Sassy Mis/takes offers a valuable insight into how experiences of the popular can be intensified by giving readers the chance to engage with screen material in an original and subversive way. This study will be of great interest to Jungian analysts and students of film, cultural studies, media, gender studies and analytical psychology." More info

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