Nightmare Factories The Asylum in the American Imagination / Troy Rondinone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rondinone, Troy, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatric hospitals--United States--History.

Psychiatric hospitals.

Asylums--United States--History.

Asylums.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Drawing from fictional and real accounts, movies, personal interviews, and tours of mental hospitals both active and defunct, Rondinone uncovers a story at once familiar and bizarre, where reality meets fantasy in the foggy landscape of celluloid and pulp.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Enchanter's Castle

Chapter 2. Woman in White, Angel in Black

Chapter 3. Monsters of the Asylum

Chapter 4. Freudian Rescues

Chapter 5. The Dawning Age of Paranoia

Chapter 6. They're Coming to Take You Away

Chapter 7. The Asylum Next Door

Chapter 8. Asylums Don't Work

Chapter 9. Breakout

Chapter 10. Standardization

Chapter 11. Return of the Gothic

Epilogue. Real Horrors

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4214-3268-4

OCLC:

1107305227