Warped minds : cinema and psychopathology / Temenuga Trifonova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trifonova, Temenuga, author.

Series:

Film culture in transition.

Film Culture in Transition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness in motion pictures.

Psychoanalysis and motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : Amsterdam University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

PDF

Summary:

Warped Minds explores the transformation of psychopathologies into cultural phenomena in the wake of the transition from an epistemological to an ontological approach to psychopathology. Trifonova considers several major points in this intellectual history: the development of a dynamic model of the self at the fin de siècle, the role of photography and film in the construction of psychopathology, the influence of psychoanalysis on the transition from static, universalizing psychiatric paradigms to dynamic styles of psychiatry foregrounding the socially constructed nature of madness, and the decline of psychoanalysis and the aestheticization of madness into a trope describing the conditions of knowledge in postmodernity as evidenced by the transformation of multiple personality and paranoia into cultural and aesthetic phenomena.

Contents:

Front matter

Warped Minds

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. The Story of Attention: Toward a Dynamic Model of the Self

2. Photography and the Construction of Psychopathology at the Fin de Siècle

3. Cinema and Psychoanalysis

4. Multiple Personality and the Hollywood 'Multiple' Film

5. Paranoia and the Geopolitical Conspiracy Thriller

Notes

Bibliography

Filmography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021).

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed January 19, 2022)

ISBN:

1-04-077649-3

1-003-70941-9

1-04-078948-X

90-485-2294-3

9781003709411

OCLC:

952779424