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

1. Introduction: Psycho-cultural Approaches to Emotion, Media and Popular Culture
Caroline Bainbridge, Candida Yates

Part I. Psycho-cultural Approaches to Sport

2. ‘Abide with me’: Mediatised Football and Collectivised Mourning
Barry Richards

3. Political Sport and the Sport of Politics: A Psycho-cultural Study of Play the Antics of Boris Johnson and the London 2012 Olympic Games
Candida Yates

Part II. The Emotional Work of Cinema

4. ‘Cinematic Screaming’ or ‘All About My Mother’: Lars von Trier’s Cinematic Extremism as Therapeutic Encounter
Caroline Bainbridge

5. Film Projection and Projective Identification: Film as a Teaching Tool
Judith Edwards

6. The Body, Emotion and Cinema: Perspectives on Cinematic Experiences of das Unheimlich and Estranged Body States in The Others (Alejandro Amenabar, 2001)
Nicola Diamond

Part III. Television and Paranoia

7. Reflections on Television and Paranoia
Karen Ainsbury

8. Coping with a Crisis of Meaning: Televised Paranoia
Hugh Ortega Breton

9. ‘Programmes for People Who Are Paranoid About the Way They Look’: Thoughts on Paranoia, Recognition, Mirrors and Makeover Television
Jo Whitehouse-Hart

Part IV. Social Media and Digital Narcissism

10. The Ultimate Private/Public Partnership: The Extensions of the Self in the World of the Virtual Gaze
Aaron Balick

11. Digital Narcissism in the Consulting Room
Jay Watts

12. Playing and Pathology: Considering Social Media as ‘Secondary Transitional Objects’
Matt Hills

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Regional and Cultural Studies, Clinical Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Cultural Studies, Media Studies