Cathleen Rountree is a writer and writing consultant, film analyst and scholar, visual artist and photographer, educator and cultural mythologist. She is the best-selling author of eight books including The Writer's Mentor: A Guide to Putting Passion On Paper and her seminal 5-volume series on women's life stages. Her articles appear in The Writer and Writer's Digest. Her lifelong passion for cinema evolved into writing film analyses for the San Francisco International Film Festival, The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, The Journal of Psycho-social Culture (England), and MS. Magazine. Her next book about how to "read" a film for deeper meaning and the transformative nature of movies will be published in 2005. As a Ph.D. Candidate at Pacifica Graduate Institute, her dissertation is entitled Technicians of Imagination: Auteur Film Directors as Contemporary Shamans. Cathleen lectures throughout the United States at conferences and to Jungian groups and teaches Cinema Studies and Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the UCLA Writers' Program. Many of her presentations are illustrated with film clips.

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