Dreams, Vampires and Ghosts Anthropological Perspectives on the Sacred and Psychology in Film and Television
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Louise Child is a Lecturer in Religious Studies at Cardiff University, UK. She is the author of Tantric Buddhism and Altered States of Consciousness: Durkheim, Emotional Energy and Visions of the Consort (2007) and Co-editor (with Aaron Rosen) of Religion and Sight (2020).Louise Child’s book,<i> Dreams, Vampires and Ghosts: Anthropological Perspectives on the Sacred and Psychology in Film and Television</i>, offers a thoughtful and skillfully crafted examination of the presence of symbols, themes, and motifs commonly linked to psychoanalysis and animistic belief systems in modern film and television. The seriousness with which Child, lecturer in religious studies at Cardiff University (UK), engages her subject, and its presentation in a straightforward, jargon-free manner, results in a text appropriate for both academic and popular audiences.
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<p>A fascinating application of new, more relational approaches to film and<br />television, challenging the more typically individualist and psychologizing<br />approaches. The films and TV series are evocatively discussed and will be<br />relatively familiar so readers will be well-placed to reflect on Louise Child’s<br />important arguments about religion, modernity, personhood and more.</p>
Graham Harvey, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, The Open University, UK