Mind reeling : psychopathology on film / Homer B. Pettey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pettey, Homer B., author.

Series:

SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Across a variety of genres, shows how mental disorders are depicted in cinema"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction: A Very Brief History of Psychopathology in Cinema

Psychopathological Cinema Studies

Works Cited

2 Adèle H., Camille Claudel, and Margot de Valois: Isabelle Adjani's Real "Mad" Women? Costume Drama and the Disruptive Female

Gender and Genre

Cinematic Disorders: Narrative Construction and Film Aesthetics

Notes

3 Musical Madness on Hangover Square

A Flaming Creature

Terminal Status Anxiety

Ear

A Victim of Sound

4 Screening Multiple Personality Disorder in the Age of Kinsey: Lizzie and The Three Faces of Eve

Disease as Cultural Map

A Slant Noirness

What Is It about Eve?

5 The Cine-Telescopic Psyche: 1950s Serial Killers and Sexual Psychopathology in The Sniper and While the City Sleeps

While the City Sleeps: The "Maniacal Mind" and the Mass Media

The Sniper: Crime and Punishment

Coda: The Cine-Telescopic Psyche

Filmography

6 Pathologies of Pedagogy in Midcentury Melodrama: The Miracle Worker and A Child Is Waiting

The Miracle Worker

A Child Is Waiting

7 Passion and Delirium: Representing Madness in Spider and Asylum

Madness in Hollywood

Narrating Madness

Identifying Insanity

Conclusion

8 Scorched: Landscape, Trauma, and Embodied Experience in Incendies

9 Ghostly and Ghastly Desires and Disorders in Young Adult: KenTacoHuts in Mercury

10 Criminal Biographies and Visual Culture

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438481029

1438481020