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

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Psycho-cultural Approaches to Emotion, Media and Popular Culture....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
‘Abide with me’: Mediatised Football and Collectivised Mourning....Pages 19-33
Political Sport and the Sport of Politics: A Psycho-cultural Study of Play the Antics of Boris Johnson and the London 2012 Olympic Games....Pages 34-50
Front Matter....Pages 51-51
‘Cinematic Screaming’ or ‘All About My Mother’: Lars von Trier’s Cinematic Extremism as Therapeutic Encounter....Pages 53-68
Film Projection and Projective Identification: Film as a Teaching Tool....Pages 69-81
The Body, Emotion and Cinema: Perspectives on Cinematic Experiences of das Unheimlich and Estranged Body States in The Others (Alejandro Amenabar, 2001)....Pages 82-96
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
Reflections on Television and Paranoia....Pages 99-112
Coping with a Crisis of Meaning: Televised Paranoia....Pages 113-134
‘Programmes for People Who Are Paranoid About the Way They Look’: Thoughts on Paranoia, Recognition, Mirrors and Makeover Television....Pages 135-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
The Ultimate Private/Public Partnership: The Extensions of the Self in the World of the Virtual Gaze....Pages 153-167
Digital Narcissism in the Consulting Room....Pages 168-184
Playing and Pathology: Considering Social Media as ‘Secondary Transitional Objects’....Pages 185-200
Back Matter....Pages 201-208