[Commlist] New Book: New heroines in film and television

This thought-provoking volume offers an overview of contemporary 
representations of prominent female characters as they appear in an 
array of moving-image narratives from a Jungian and post-Jungian 
perspective.

Applying a theoretical frame that is richly informed by the Jungian and 
post-Jungian concepts of persona, individuation, and archetypes, works 
including Fleabag (2016-2019), Ladybird (2017), and The 
Queen’sGambit (2020) as well as Disney productions such as Brave (2012), 
Moana (2016), and Frozen (2013), are contextualized and discussed 
alongside their non-screen precedents and contemporaries, including 
myths, fairy tales, and works of literature, to closely examine new 
patterns of the female journey. This book identifies how young female 
characters rebel against the female persona of previous eras through the 
trickster, the shadow, and other archetypes, comparing the contemporary 
female protagonist with her predecessors to assess the new paths, roles, 
and milestones available to her. Examining the construction of the 
female persona across time periods and mediums in an accessibly written 
yet academic style, this book is the first of its kind.

With a fulsome account of the progressive developments in entertainment 
media and Jungian thought, this book is essential reading for students 
and scholars of film, as well as anyone with an interest in analytical 
psychology and wider feminist issues in contemporary culture.


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