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Warped Minds: Cinema and Psychopathology (Amsterdam University Press - Film Culture in Transition)
Temenuga Trifonova
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Hardcover. An illuminating investigation on the depiction of madness from early horror films of the 20s and 30s to the proliferation of today's conspiracy thrillers. Series: Film Culture in Transition. Num Pages: 288 pages, 0 black and white; 20 full color. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 21. Weight in Grams: 574.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Condition
New
Series
Film Culture in Transition
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Amsterdam, Netherlands
ISBN
9789089646323
SKU
V9789089646323
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About Temenuga Trifonova
Temenuga Trifonova, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at York University, is the author of The Figure of the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema (2020), Warped Minds: Cinema and Psychopathology (2014), The Image in French Philosophy (2007), and the edited volumes Screening the Art World (2022), Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime (2017), and European Film Theory (2008). In ... Read more
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