Tim Burton: The Monster and the Crowd: A Post-Jungian Perspective

Employs Jungian and post-Jungian concepts of unconscious mental processes along with film semiotics, analysis of narrative devices and cinematic history; to explore the reworking of myth and fairytale in Burton's gothic fantasy world.

"Brilliantly confirms what we have been suspecting all along - that film studies drawing on Jungian psychology is a genuine advance, here to stay, and capable of extending itself across several generations of authors. Helena Bassil-Morozow approaches the key contemporary question of the relations between individual and crowd via a creative intermingling of a profound engagement with Burton's films and Jung's idea of individuation. The monster we meet in book and film sets off something massive in everyone - that's what this level of writing about the archetypal can do."

- Andrew Samuels, Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of Essex