Madness at the movies : understanding mental illness through film / James Charney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Charney, James, 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness in motion pictures.

Mental Disorders.

Motion Pictures.

Mentally Ill Persons.

Medical Subjects:

Mental Disorders.

Motion Pictures.

Mentally Ill Persons.

Physical Description:

xxii, 425 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"A unique, detailed look at depictions of mental illness in films"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

2. Hallucinations and Delusions: Schizophrenia

Through a Glass Darkly other visions: Benny and]oon, Network, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

3. The Experience of Acute Psychosis: Schizophrenia

Repulsion other visions: Spider, A Beautiful Mind, Saint Maud, The Shining

4. Paranoia and Delusion

Taxi Driver other visions: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Dr. Strangelove

5. Personality Disorders: The Psychopath

The Night of the Hunter other visions: White Heat, American Psycho, Joker

6. A Different Kind of Psychopath: Charming but Dangerous

Strangers on a Train other visions: Cape Fear (1962 81991), The Talented Mr. Ripley

7. Dissociative Identity Disorder: Who Are You Really?

Psycho other visions: The Three Faces of Eve, Dead of Night, Primal Fear

8. Are We All Voyeurs? A Filmmaker's Undoing

Peeping Tom other visions: Blue Velvet, Reservoir Dogs

9. Mood Disorders and the Family

A Woman Under the Influence other visions: Mr. /ones; One, Two, Three; Good Morning, Vietnam

10. Grief and Depression

Ordinary People other visions: The Hospital, Harold and Maude, Melancholia

11. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Other Anxieties

As Good as It Gets other visions: Hannah and Her Sisters, What About Bob?, Vertigo, Toe Toe, The Aviator

12. Hollywood Healers: Psychotherapy Essentials

Spellbound, Grosse Pointe Blank, JClute, An Unmarried Woman, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, filume in Love, Ordinary People, What's New Pussycat?, Analyze This.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781421445625

142144562X

OCLC:

1337522864