Introduction to special issue on media and the inner world: New perspectives on psychoanalysis and popular culture

About the Authors Dr Caroline Bainbridge is a Reader in Visual Culture at the University of Roehampton in London. She is a Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Council research network, Media and the Inner World (www.miwnet.org), which focuses on the development of a psycho-cultural approach to media, popular culture and emotion, drawing on object relations psychoanalysis. She is Editor of the journal Free Associations: Psychoanalysis and Culture, Media, Groups, Politics (www.freeassociations.org.uk) and author of The Cinema of Lars von Trier: Authenticity and artifice (Wallflower Press/Columbia University Press, 2007) and A Feminine Cinematics: Luce Irigaray, women and film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). She is also an editor of Culture and the Unconscious (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and a series editor of the ‘Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture’ book list published by Karnac Books. Caroline has written widely on aspects of psychoanalysis and its applications to popular culture and sits on the organising committee of the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival. Dr Candida Yates is a Reader in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London and is a Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Council research network, Media and the Inner World (www.miwnet.org). She is Co-editor of the journal Free Associations: Psychoanalysis and Culture, Media, Groups, Politics (www.freeassociations.org.uk); an associate editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society; and an editor of the international Karnac Book Series: Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture. She also sits on the organising committee of the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival hosted by the Institute of Psychoanalysis at BAFTA. She has published widely on the themes of masculinity, emotion, politics and popular culture. Her publications include Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema, (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007), Culture and The Unconscious, (Co-editor, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), Emotion: Psychosocial Perspectives, (Co-editor, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).