Cinemashrink in-depth film essays draw upon all these authors and many more. Each is a delight in their own right, endlessly interesting and meant to stimulate further investigation. I’ve read every author many times in many different formats and recommend you look for them wherever they write. Every book I own is filled with post-its for finding what I know I will forget and to savor what I know I will discover anew when I return. They’re all that good. Dig in.
The Presence of the Feminine in Film, John Beebe and Virgina Apperson
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Peter Biskind
Jacking In To the Matrix Franchise, Ed.. William Doty
From Reverence to Rape, Molly Haskell
Illuminating Shadows, Geoffrey Hill
Pauline Kael For Keeps, Pauline Kael
Psychoanalysis and Cinema, Ed., Ann Kaplan
A Flickering Reality, F. David Peat
Enjoy Your Symptoms, Slajov Zizek
Ring of Power, Jean Shinoda Bolen
The Hero with a Thousand Faces, John Campbell
Myths to Live By, Joseph Campbell
Once Upon a Midlife, Allan Chinen
Tracking the Gods; The Place of Myth in Modern Life, James Hollis
The Soul of Popular Culture, Ed., Mary Lynn Kittelson
Descent to the Goddess, Sylvia Perera
The Writers Journey, Christopher Vogler
From the Beast to the Blonde, Marina Warner
Six Myths of our Time, Marina Warner
Visual Thinking, Rudolf Arnheim
Mind and Nature, Gregory Bateson
Flow, The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Trance, Art and Creativity, John Curtis Gowan
A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley
The Primacy of Perception, Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Composing a Life, Mary Catherine Bateson
Integrity in Depth, John Beebe
The Creation of Consciousness, Edward F. Edinger
Symbols of Transformation, C.G. Jung (all and everything, including The Red Book)
Woman and Nature, Susan Griffin
The Last Gift of Time, Carolyn Heilbrun
Healing Fiction, James Hillman
Transformation, Robert A. Johnson
Writing for Your Life, Deena Metzger
The Heroine’s Journey, Maureen Murdock
Awakening Heroes Within, Carol Pearson
Projection and Re-collection, Marie Louise Von Franz
The Feminist Legacy of Karen Horney, Marcia Westkott
The Symbolic Quest, Edward Whitmont
