Mental illness in popular culture /

"Mental health professionals and advocates typically point a finger at pop culture for sensationalizing and stigmatizing mental illness, perpetuating stereotypes, and capitalizing on the increased anxiety that invariably follows mass shootings at schools, military bases, or workplaces; on publi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Packer, Sharon (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Barbara, CA : Praeger, [2017]
Temas:
Mental illness > Popular works.
Mentally ill > Popular works.
Mental illness.
Music.
Mental Disorders
Mentally Ill Persons
Motion Pictures
Television
Literature
Music
Maladies mentales > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Maladies mentales.
Télévision.
Littérature.
Musique.
mental disorders.
television (telecommunication system)
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Mentally ill.
Popular works.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: Cinema: the big screen. Psychoanalytic renditions and film noir traditions
  • The meme of escaped (male) mental patients in American horror films
  • Filming hallucinations for A beautiful mind, Black swan, Spider, and Take shelter
  • Dissociative identity disorder in horror cinema (you D.I.D.n't see that coming)
  • Spirit possession, mental illness, and the movies, or what's gotten into you?
  • Hitchcock: master of suspense and mental illness
  • McMurphy the Trickster, Foucault, and One flew over the cuckoo's nest
  • "Nature played me a dirty trick": illness vs. tolerance in gay-themed film
  • Part II: Television: the small screen. Women's agency as madness: "The yellow wallpaper" to Penny dreadful
  • Orange is the new color for mental illness
  • Suffering soldiers and PTSD: from Saigon to Walton's mountain
  • Mirth and mental illness: television comedy and the human condition
  • Mentally ill mobsters: from Cagney's White heat to Scarface to Bugsy and Crazy Joe
  • How traditional holiday TV Movies depict mental illness
  • Cotard's syndrome in True detective, alien invaders, zombies, and pod people
  • House, Monk, Dexter, and Hannibal: "super-powered" mentally ill TV characters
  • Part III: novels, poetry, memoirs, and short stories. Sanity and perception in Philip K. Dick's Clans of the Alphane moon
  • Medea, mothers, and madness: classical culture in popular culture
  • Narratives in The snake pit, I never promised you a rose garden, and Girl, interrupted
  • Edgar Allan Poe's unreliable narrators, or "madmen know nothing"
  • Lovecraft and "an open slice of howling fear"
  • Part IV: Comics, art, graphic novels, and video games. Mind games: representations of madness in video games
  • Graphic narratives: Bechdel's Fun home and Forney's Marbles
  • The X-Men as metaphors: when gayness was illness
  • Arkham Asylum's criminally insane inmates and psychotic psychiatrists
  • Halfworld's loonies in Rocket Raccoon comics--serious or satire?
  • Van Gogh and the changing perceptions of mental illness and art
  • From the Beats to Jean-Michel Basquiat: cultural madness and mad art
  • "Autists" and merchandising "autistic art"
  • Slipping into Silent hill: transnational trauma
  • Part 5: Music, musicians, and musical theater. Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, and Generation X's suicide symbol
  • Metallica, heavy metal, and "suicide music."

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