One, Two, Three, Many: Dream-Culture, Charms and Nightmares
Book Chapter
Milne, L. S. (2019)
One, Two, Three, Many: Dream-Culture, Charms and Nightmares. In E. Pocs, J. Kapaló, L. S. Milne, & C. Somerville (Eds.), Charms and Charming: Studies on Magic in Everyday Life (129-167). Ljubljana: Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Researchers may focus on charms as evidence about belief-systems in particular regions, periods or demographics; for insights into wider theoretical issues in the anthropology...
Terrors of the Night. Essays on Art, Myth and Dreams
Book
Milne, L. (in press)
Terrors of the Night. Essays on Art, Myth and Dreams. Swansea, UK: Atramentous Press
This volume presents essays on the history of dreams and nightmares, in particular focusing on how these have been visualised; and how and why these visualizations change. Usi...
A Storm in the Head: Animals, Dreams and Desire
Journal Article
Milne, L. S. (2011)
A Storm in the Head: Animals, Dreams and Desire. Cosmos, 27, 61-119
This article analyses the long history of the “storm in the head” as a recognisable image-constellation in art, mythology, dreams, and folk-culture. Some very old components –...
Pieter Bruegel and Carlo Ginzburg: The Debatable Land of Renaissance Dreams
Journal Article
Milne, L. S. (2013)
Pieter Bruegel and Carlo Ginzburg: The Debatable Land of Renaissance Dreams. Cosmos, 29, 59-126
Pieter Bruegel the Elder's pictures of witches and dreams are discussed in relation to Carlo Ginzburg's studies of the benandanti (do-gooders, good walkers) and the mythology ...
Tarkovsky: Cinema of Dreams
Digital Artefact
Milne, L., & Martin, S. (2018)
Tarkovsky: Cinema of Dreams. [Website]
Lanterna Magicka comprises film makers Louise Milne and Sean Martin. Currently in production, their film Tarkovsky: Cinema of Dreams, is a critical account of the great direct...
Nightmares and Other Doubles: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on the Visual Culture of Self-shattering Dreams and Visions
Presentation / Conference
Milne, L. (2019, September)
Nightmares and Other Doubles: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on the Visual Culture of Self-shattering Dreams and Visions. Paper presented at Dream Cultures: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, University of Helsinki, Finland
The nightmare is a form of “affect-laden” or “self-shattering” dream, wherein the dreamer awakens in a state of high emotional disturbance. Such dreams include initiation and/...
Dream Cultures in the Renaissance
Conference Proceeding
Milne, L. S. (2014)
Dream Cultures in the Renaissance. In K. Antoni, & D. Weiss (Eds.), Sources of Mythology: Ancient and Contemporary Myths. Seventh Annual International Conference on Comparative Mythology (153-178
No abstract available.
The Dream in the Mirror
Digital Artefact
Martin, S., & Milne, L. (2021)
The Dream in the Mirror. [Digital Video]
The Dream in the Mirror is a documentary commissioned by Criterion, NYC for their new Blue-Ray /streaming restored edition of Tarkovsky's Mirror (1975).
The Terrors of the Night: Charms against the Nightmare and the Mythology of Dreams
Journal Article
Milne, L. S. (2017)
The Terrors of the Night: Charms against the Nightmare and the Mythology of Dreams. Incantatio : An International Journal on Charms, Charmers and Charming, 6, 78-116. https://doi.org/10.7592/incantatio2017_6_milne
This article takes a semiotic and structuralist approach to understanding the characteristic nightmare package of imagery, or image-constellation, which appears also in charms...
The Time Of The Dream In Mythic Thought And Culture
Presentation / Conference
Milne, L. (2016, May)
The Time Of The Dream In Mythic Thought And Culture. Paper presented at Time and Myth: the Temporal and the Eternal. 10th Conference of the International Association for Comparative Mythology, Brno, Czech Republic
Ancient and tribal cultures perceive and describe the function of dreaming in distinctive ways. This paper examines theories of mind in ancient northern, Classical and tribal ...