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03659aam a2200481 i 4500 001 CCCF27A090F111EA86A69E4897128E48 003 SILO 005 20200508010100 008 181211t20192019mdua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2018059343 020 $a 1421432676 020 $a 9781421432670 035 $a (OCoLC)1080554445 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d WIE $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCA $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d CTX $d OCLCA $d VVJ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a RC439 $b .R638 2019 060 4 $a WM 27 AA1 082 00 $a 362.2/1 $2 23 100 1 $a Rondinone, Troy, $d 1973- $e author. 245 10 $a Nightmare factories : $b the asylum in the American imagination / $c Troy Rondinone. 264 1 $a Baltimore, Maryland : $b Johns Hopkins University Press, $c 2019. 300 $a 334 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a Madhouse, funny farm, psychiatric hospital, loony bin, nuthouse, mental institution: no matter what you call it, the asylum has a powerful hold on the American imagination. Stark and foreboding, they symbolize mistreatment, fear, and imprisonment, standing as castles of despair and tyranny across the countryside. In the "asylum" of American fiction and film, treatments are torture, attendants are thugs, and psychiatrists are despots. In Nightmare Factories, Troy Rondinone offers the first history of mental hospitals in American popular culture. Beginning with Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 short story "The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether," Rondinone surveys how American novelists, poets, memoirists, reporters, and filmmakers have portrayed the asylum and how those representations reflect larger social trends in the United States. Asylums, he argues, darkly reflect cultural anxieties and the shortcomings of democracy, as well as the ongoing mistreatment of people suffering from mental illness. Nightmare Factories traces the story of the asylum as the masses have witnessed it. Rondinone shows how works ranging from Moby-Dick and Dracula to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Halloween, and American Horror Story have all conversed with the asylum. 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. --Jacket flap. 650 0 $a Asylums $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Psychiatric hospitals $z United States $x History. 650 2 $a Hospitals, Psychiatric. 650 7 $a Asylums. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00819857 650 7 $a Psychiatric hospitals. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01081047 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 650 7 $a Heim $2 gnd 650 7 $a Irrenanstalt $2 gnd 650 7 $a Psychiatrische Abteilung $2 gnd 650 7 $a Psychiatrische Klinik $2 gnd 651 7 $a USA $2 gnd 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 2 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20211201010711.0 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20210728010925.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CCCF27A090F111EA86A69E4897128E48 994 $a 92 $b UINInitiate Another SILO Locator Search