Introduction

This new collection of Jungian writing on film is even more varied than the first. While several chapters deal in fascinating detail with particular movies – such as Birth,The Piano,The Wrestler and Breaking The Waves – we have also sought out writers willing to tackle the broader issues of movie production and consumption, the audience and the place of film culture in our lives. Equally, while popular and commercial films (not always the same thing) are well represented, we have also found writers to introduce us to the work of an ethnographic film-maker, Maya Deren, and include a unique chapter co-written by Tom Hurwitz (who is the first documentary film-maker to be admitted into the prized American Society of Cinematographers) and New York Jungian analyst Margaret Klenck.