[ecrea] Media and the Inner World: Psycho-cultural Approaches to Emotion, Media and Popular Culture

New book:

Media and the Inner World: Psycho-cultural Approaches to Emotion, Media 
and Popular Culture

Edited by Caroline Bainbridge and Candida Yates

ISBN

9781137345530

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan


This anthology offers unique, psycho-cultural perspectives on media, 
popular culture and emotion, as developed through the AHRC research 
network, 'Media and the Inner World'. Applying insights from the spheres 
of academic scholarship and clinical experience, the psycho-cultural 
approach of this book demonstrates the usefulness of psychoanalysis for 
nuanced approaches to media and cultural analysis. The chapters in this 
volume explore the relationship between media and the inner world by 
focusing on the inter-relationships between particular emotional themes 
and media contexts, ranging from fantasies of sporting ritual to the 
emotional work of cinema, the dynamics of digital narcissism and the 
relationship between paranoia and television. The book will be useful 
for students in Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Psychoanalytic Studies 
and Psychosocial Studies. It will also be of interest to people in 
professional training and practice in psychotherapeutic organisations 
and to professionals involved in the culture and media industries.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Psycho-cultural Approaches to Emotion, Media and Popular 
Culture;

Caroline Bainbridge and Candida Yates

PART I: PSYCHO-CULTURAL APPROACHES TO SPORT
1. 'Abide With Me': Mediatised Football And Collectivised Mourning; 
Barry Richards
2. Political Sport and The Sport of Politics: A Psycho-cultural Study of 
Play, the Antics of Boris Johnson and The London 2012 Olympic Games; 
Candida Yates

PART II: THE EMOTIONAL WORK OF CINEMA
3. 'Cinematic Screaming' or 'All About My Mother': Lars von Trier's 
Cinematic Extremism as Therapeutic Encounter; Caroline Bainbridge
4. Film Projection and Projective Identification: Film as a Teaching 
Tool; Judith Edwards
5. The Body, Emotion and Cinema: Perspectives on Cinematic Experiences 
of das Unheimlich and Estranged Body States in The Others (Alejandro 
Amenàbar, 2001); Nicola Diamond

PART III: TELEVISION AND PARANOIA
6. Reflections on Television and Paranoia; Karen Ainsbury
7. Coping with a Crisis of Meaning: Televised Paranoia; Hugh Ortega Breton
8. 'Programmes For People Who Are Paranoid About The Way They Look': 
Thoughts On Paranoia, Recognition, Mirrors and Makeover Television; Jo 
Whitehouse-Hart

PART IV: SOCIAL MEDIA AND DIGITAL NARCISSISM
9. The Ultimate Private/Public Partnership: The Extensions of the Self 
in the World of the Virtual Gaze; Aaron Balick
10. Digital Narcissism in the Consulting Room; Jay Watts
11. Playing and Pathology: Considering Social Media as 'Secondary 
Transitional Objects'; Matt Hills

Editors:
Caroline Bainbridge is Reader in Visual Culture at the University of 
Roehampton in London, UK. With Candida Yates, she is a Director of the 
Media and the Inner World network 
(www.miwnet.org<http://www.miwnet.org>). Caroline is the author of The 
Cinema of Lars von Trier: Authenticity and Artifice and A Feminine 
Cinematics: Luce Irigaray, Women and Film and co-editor of Culture and 
the Unconscious and Television and Psychoanalysis: Psycho-cultural 
Perspectives. She has also published work on cinema, psychoanalysis, 
popular culture and emotion in a number of academic journals including 
Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society and Screen. Most recently, she has 
become Editor of the journal, Free Associations: Psychoanalysis and 
Culture, Media, Groups, Politics and a Series Editor of a newly 
inaugurated series on the theme of 'Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture'.

Candida Yates is Reader in Psychosocial Studies at the University of 
East London, UK, and is a Director of the Media and the Inner World 
network, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. She has 
published widely on the themes of popular culture, psychoanalysis and 
identity. She is Co-Editor of the journal Free Associations: 
Psychoanalysis and Culture, Media, Groups, Politics, a Consulting Editor 
of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society and Co-Editor of a series on 
'Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture'. Her publications include Masculine 
Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema, Culture and The Unconscious, Emotion: 
New Psychosocial Perspectives and Television and Psychoanalysis: 
Psycho-Cultural Approaches.


Candida Yates (PhD, MA, BA)
Reader in Psychosocial Studies
Director, The Media and the Inner World Research Network
The School of Social Sciences, The University of East London, Docklands 
Campus, London E16 2RD
(c.yates /at/ uel.ac.uk) <mailto:(c.yates /at/ uel.ac.uk)>