Wild/lives
Subtitle: trickster, place and liminality on screen
By: Terrie Waddell.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780415420426; 9780415420433
Subjects: Tricksters in motion pictures; Liminality in motion pictures; Tricksters on television; Liminality on television
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Verging on wildness : liminality and trickster; title: From the slime to the scream : pigs, whores and random acts of soiling : Deadwood; title: Channelling the "inner warrior" : bear whispering as an extreme sport : Grizzly man; title: Waiting for godonlyknows : the island with agency : Lost; title: Lost in space : the pull of a sentient planet and its avatars : Solaris; title: Drop and give me ten : the game, the shame, the pain : The biggest loser; title: Dog day afternoons : furbabies and hellhounds : Amores perros (Love's a bitch); title: Tell me about the rabbits, Carol : fear and misandry in the underworld : Repulsion.