Cinema and the Realms of Enchantment: Lectures, Seminars and Essays (BFI Working Papers)

This volume highlights three lectures by celebrated writer and scholar Marina Warner, who examines the social and psychic resonances of certain motifs and themes and their interpretation by film makers such as Renoir, Vigo and Cocteau. Warner also explores the idea of "the child" as expressed in fairy-tale narratives and the extent to which figures of witches and evil step-mothers are evidence of deep-seated misogyny. The accompanying essays expand on these questions. Together with Warner's pioneering work, they open a window on a new vista for film studies.