ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book describes the direction of travel for Jungian film and related theories, namely to head out of the cinema and into the digital world of everyday life. It looks at cinema outside Anglophone regions – there is one exception that explores the hero in the USA as a transnational phenomenon and sets out to capture the state of Jungian film theory. The book examines life of the image on screens other than in the cinema. It explores the interrelationship between clinical theory and practice and its use in both the textual analysis of films and also as a means to understand the psychological impact of watching films. The book is peppered with clinical insights, offered by therapists and film theorists alike. Indeed, in the realm of Jungian film theory the distinction between the clinical and theoretical approaches is particularly fluid and fertile.
