Suicide movies : social patterns 1900-2009 / Steven Stack and Barbara Bowman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stack, Steven.

Contributor:

Bowman, Barbara.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suicide in art.

Motion pictures--United States--History.

Motion pictures.

Suicide--Social aspects.

Suicide.

United States.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 298 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Hogrefe, [2012]

Summary:

This interesting scholarly analysis of media portrayals of suicide examines exposition of both psychological and sociological suicide scenarios in popular film. The work discusses such topics as traditional psychiatric reasons for suicide in films, pain, illness and disability, economic strain and suicide, death of loved ones, altruistic suicide, and international contexts for the portrayal of suicide. The work includes numerous black and white photographs as well as subject and film indexes. Stack is a professor of psychiatry and criminology at Wayne State University, Michigan and Bowman is a lawyer and the author of other works on suicide in film. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780889373907

0889373906

OCLC:

713214715