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Little has been written, however, about the ability of movies to portray mental illness sympathetically and accurately. Zimmerman fills that void with a close look at mental illness in more than seventy American movies, beginning with classics such as The Snake Pit and Now, Voyager and including suc...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zimmerman, Jacqueline Noll, 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, c2003.
Series:Studies in film genres ; no. 3.
Subjects:
Mental illness in motion pictures.
Mental illness.
Motion pictures.
Cinematography.
Mentally ill women.
Mental Disorders
Motion Pictures as Topic
Motion Pictures
Mentally Ill Persons
Maladies mentales au cinéma.
Maladies mentales.
Cinéma.
Femmes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale.
mental disorders.
cinematography.
mentally ill.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
Mental illness in motion pictures
Mental illness
Motion pictures
Psychisch Kranker > Motiv
Film
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The price of conformity: the false self
  • 2. The denial of reality
  • 3. Hitchcock, chaos, and the devils of unreason
  • 4. Women who can't forget
  • 5. Divine madness: poets, prophets, and demons
  • 6. War: a battle for the mind and spirit
  • 7. Violence and mental illness: a good movie is hard to find.

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