Mind Reeling
Psychopathology on Film
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2020
258 pages
978-1-4384-8102-9 (ISBN)
Description
Across a variety of genres, shows how mental disorders are depicted in cinema.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
Total Illustrations: 27
Total Illustrations: 27
ISBN-13
978-1-4384-8102-9 (9781438481029)
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07/2021
State University of New York Press
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Person
Homer B. Pettey is Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at the University of Arizona. He is the editor of several books, including Hitchcock's Moral Gaze (with R. Barton Palmer and Steven M. Sanders) and Rule Brittannia! The Biopic and British National Identity (with R. Barton Palmer), both also published by SUNY Press.
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: A Very Brief History of Psychopathology in Cinema
Homer B. Pettey
2. Adèle H., Camille Claudel, and Margot de Valois: Isabelle Adjani's Real "Mad" Women? Costume Drama and the Disruptive Female
Susan Hayward
3. Musical Madness on Hangover Square
Murray Pomerance
4. Screening Multiple Personality Disorder in the Age of Kinsey: Lizzie and The Three Faces of Eve
R. Barton Palmer
5. The Cine-Telescopic Psyche: 1950s Serial Killers and Sexual Psychopathology in The Sniper and While the City Sleeps
Robert Miklitsch
6. Pathologies of Pedagogy in Midcentury Melodrama: The Miracle Worker and A Child Is Waiting
Jennifer L. Jenkins
7. Passion and Delirium: Representing Madness in Spider and Asylum
Jim Leach
8. Scorched: Landscape, Trauma, and Embodied Experience in Incendies
Tarja Laine
9. Ghostly and Ghastly Desires and Disorders in Young Adult: KenTacoHuts in Mercury
Julie Grossman
10. Criminal Biographies and Visual Culture
Homer B. Pettey
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: A Very Brief History of Psychopathology in Cinema
Homer B. Pettey
2. Adèle H., Camille Claudel, and Margot de Valois: Isabelle Adjani's Real "Mad" Women? Costume Drama and the Disruptive Female
Susan Hayward
3. Musical Madness on Hangover Square
Murray Pomerance
4. Screening Multiple Personality Disorder in the Age of Kinsey: Lizzie and The Three Faces of Eve
R. Barton Palmer
5. The Cine-Telescopic Psyche: 1950s Serial Killers and Sexual Psychopathology in The Sniper and While the City Sleeps
Robert Miklitsch
6. Pathologies of Pedagogy in Midcentury Melodrama: The Miracle Worker and A Child Is Waiting
Jennifer L. Jenkins
7. Passion and Delirium: Representing Madness in Spider and Asylum
Jim Leach
8. Scorched: Landscape, Trauma, and Embodied Experience in Incendies
Tarja Laine
9. Ghostly and Ghastly Desires and Disorders in Young Adult: KenTacoHuts in Mercury
Julie Grossman
10. Criminal Biographies and Visual Culture
Homer B. Pettey
Contributors
Index
