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1 online resource (283 pages) |
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Film culture in transition |
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Film culture in transition.
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| Contents |
Front matter -- Warped Minds -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Story of Attention: Toward a Dynamic Model of the Self -- 2. Photography and the Construction of Psychopathology at the Fin de Siècle -- 3. Cinema and Psychoanalysis -- 4. Multiple Personality and the Hollywood 'Multiple' Film -- 5. Paranoia and the Geopolitical Conspiracy Thriller -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index |
| Summary |
Warped Minds explores the transformation of psychopathologies into cultural phenomena in the wake of the transition from an epistemological to an ontological approach to psychopathology. Trifonova considers several major points in this intellectual history: the development of a dynamic model of the self at the fin de siècle, the role of photography and film in the construction of psychopathology, the influence of psychoanalysis on the transition from static, universalizing psychiatric paradigms to dynamic styles of psychiatry foregrounding the socially constructed nature of madness, and the de |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Mental illness in motion pictures.
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Psychoanalysis and motion pictures.
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Film theory and criticism.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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ART -- General.
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Mental illness in motion pictures
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Psychoanalysis and motion pictures
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9048522943 |
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9789048522941 |
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9048522951 |
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9789048522958 |
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