Routledge Mental Health

Helena Bassil-Morozow is a cultural studies theorist and film
scholar. Her principal research interest is the dynamic between
individual personality and socio-cultural systems in industrialised
and post-industrial societies. She is an honorary research fellow of
the Research Institute for Media Art and Design, University of
Bedfordshire.

Helena’s books include Tim Burton: the Monster and the Crowd
(Routledge, 2010) and The Trickster in Contemporary Film (Routledge,
2011). Tim Burton discusses the themes of creativity, identity,
nonconformity and individualism, which permeate all Burton’s films, in
terms of postmodern alienation and plurality of the subject. The
Trickster in Contemporary Film examines the role of the trickster
figure in cinematic narratives against the cultural imperatives of
modernity and postmodernity, and argues that cinematic tricksters
invariably reflect cultural shifts and upheavals.

Helena is currently working on two new Routledge projects, The
Trickster in Society and Culture  and Jungian Film Studies: the
Essential Guide (the latter co-authored with Luke Hockley)”.