The New Heroines in Film and Television av Helena (Glasgow Caledonian University UK) Bassil-Morozow

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<P>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. </P><P>Applying a theoretical frame that is richly informed by the Jungian and post-Jungian concepts of persona, individuation and archetypes, works including <I>Fleabag</I> (2016-2019), <I>Ladybird</I> (2017), and <I>The Queen¿s</I><I>Gambit</I> (2020) as well as Disney productions such as <I>Brave</I> (2012), <I>Moana</I> (2016) and <I>Frozen</I> (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