Warped Minds

Cinema and Psychopathology
0. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-90-8964-632-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Film Culture in Transition

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 decline of psychoanalysis and the aestheticization of madness into a trope describing the conditions of knowledge in postmodernity as evidenced by the transformation of multiple personality and paranoia into cultural and aesthetic phenomena.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Trifonova, Temenuga

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Chapter 1 The Story of Attention: Toward a Dynamic Model of the Self Chapter 2 Photography and the Construction of Psychopathology at the Fin de Siècle Chapter 3 Cinema and Psychoanalysis Chapter 4 Multiple Personality and the Hollywood 'Multiple' Film Chapter 5 Paranoia and the Geopolitical Conspiracy Thriller, Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Temenuga Trifonova is Associate Professor in Creative Arts and Humanities at University College London. She is the author of Screening the Art World, The Figure of the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema, Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime, Warped Minds: Cinema and Psychopathology, European Film Theory, The Image in French Philosophy, and the novels Tourist and Rewrite.