Introduction: Criminal Biographies and Visual Culture / Homer B. Pettey. Adè€le H., Camille Claudel, and Margot de Valois: Isabelle Adjani's Real "Mad" Women? Costume Drama and the Disruptive Female / Susan Hayward -- Musical Madness on Hangover Square / Murray Pomerance -- Screening Multiple Personality Disorder in the Age of Kinsey: Lizzie and The Three Faces of Eve / R. Barton Palmer -- Cine-Telescopic Psyche: 1950s Serial Killers and Sexual Psychopathology in The Sniper and While the City Sleeps / Robert Miklitsch -- Pathologies of Pedagogy in Midcentury Melodrama: The Miracle Worker and A Child Is Waiting / Jennifer L. Jenkins -- Passion and Delirium: Representing Madness in Spider and Asylum / Jim Leach -- Scorched: Landscape, Trauma, and Embodied Experience in Incendies / Tarja Laine -- Ghostly and Ghastly Desires and Disorders in Young Adult: KenTacoHuts in Mercury / Julie Grossman -- Criminal Biographies and Visual Culture / Homer B. Pettey.
Summary:
"Across a variety of genres, shows how mental disorders are depicted in cinema"-- Provided by publisher Mind Reeling investigates how cinema displays and mirrors psychological disorders, such as bipolar disorder, amnesia, psychotic delusions, obsessive compulsive behavior, trauma, paranoia, and borderline personalities. It explores a range of genres, including biopics, comedies, film noirs, contemporary dramedies, thrillers, Gothic mysteries, and docufictions. The contributors open up critical approaches to audience fascination with film depictions of serious disturbances within the human psyche. Many films examined here have had little scholarly attention and commentary. These essays focus on how cinematic techniques contribute to popular culture's conception of mental dysfunction, trauma, and illness. This book reveals the complex artistic and generic patterns that produce contemporary images of psychopathology in cinema.
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