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Overview
Mental health professionals and advocates typically point a finger at pop culture for sensationalizing and stigmatizing mental illness, perpetuating stereotypes, and capitalizing on the increased anxiety that invariably follows mass shootings at schools, military bases, or workplaces; on public transportation; or at large public gatherings. While drugs or street gangs were once most often blamed for public violence, the upswing of psychotic perpetrators casts a harsher light on mental illness and commands media's attention. What aspects of popular culture could play a role in mental health across the nation? How accurate and influential are the various media representations of mental illness? Or are there unsung positive portrayals of mental illness?
This standout work on the intersections of pop culture and mental illness brings informed perspectives and necessary context to the myriad topics within these important, timely, and controversial issues. Divided into five sections, the book covers movies; television; popular literature, encompassing novels, poetry, and memoirs; the visual arts, such as fine art, video games, comics, and graphic novels; and popular music, addressing lyrics and musicians' lives. Some of the essays reference multiple media, such as a filmic adaptation of a memoir or a video game adaptation of a story or characters that were originally in comics. With roughly 20 percent of U.S. citizens taking psychotropic prescriptions or carrying a psychiatric diagnosis, this timely topic is relevant to far more individuals than many people would admit.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781440843884 |
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| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publication date: | 05/24/2017 |
| Pages: | 392 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.88(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Introduction Sharon Packer, MD ix
Part 1 Cinema: The Big Screen 1
Chapter 1 Psychoanalytic Renditions and Film Noir Traditions Rosa JH Berland 3
Chapter 2 The Meme of Escaped (Male) Mental Patients in American Horror Films Jeffrey Bullins 13
Chapter 3 Filming Hallucinations for A Beautiful Mind, Black Swan, Spider, and Take Shelter Jocelyn Dupont 23
Chapter 4 Dissociative Identity Disorder in Horror Cinema (You D.I.D.n't See That Coming) Michael Marhus 35
Chapter 5 Spirit Possession, Mental Illness, and the Movies, or What's Gotten into You? Sean Moreland 45
Chapter 6 Hitchcock: Master of Suspense and Mental Illness Mark O'Hara 55
Chapter 7 McMurphy the Trickster, Foucault, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Mark O'Hara 65
Chapter 8 "Nature Played Me a Dirty Trick": Illness vs. Tolerance in Gay-Themed Film Eric J. Sterling 77
Part 2 Television: The Small Screen 87
Chapter 9 Women's Agency as Madness: "The Yellow Wallpaper" to Penny Dreadful Laura E. Colmenero-Chilberg 89
Chapter 10 Orange Is the New Color for Mental Illness Mary L. Colavita Kate Lieb Alexis Briggie Sonal Harneja Howard L. Forman 99
Chapter 11 Suffering Soldiers and PTSD: From Saigon to Walton's Mountain Haley Gienow-McConnell 109
Chapter 12 Mirth and Mental Illness: Television Comedy and the Human Condition Kristi Rowan Humphreys 119
Chapter 13 Mentally Ill Mobsters: From Cagney's White Heat to Scarface to Bugsy and Crazy Joe Vincent LoBrutto 129
Chapter 14 How Traditional Holiday TV Movies Depict Mental Illness Martin J. Manning 137
Chapter 15 Cotard's Syndrome in True Defective, Alien Invaders, Zombies, and Pod People W. Scott Poole 147
Chapter 16 House, Monk, Dexter, and Hannibal: "Super-Powered" Mentally Ill TV Characters Lisa Spieker 159
Part 3 Novels, Poetry, Memoirs, and Short Stories 169
Chapter 17 Sanity and Perception in Philip K. Dick's Clans of the Alphane Moon Aaron Barlow 171
Chapter 18 Medea, Mothers, and Madness: Classical Culture in Popular Culture Daniel R. Fredrick 183
Chapter 19 Narratives in The Snake Pit, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, and Girl, interrupted Jessica N. Lee 193
Chapter 20 Edgar Allan Poe's Unreliable Narrators, or "Madmen Know Nothing" Caleb Puckett 205
Chapter 21 Lovecraft and "An Open Slice of Howling Fear" Eric Sandberg 213
Part 4 Comics, Art, Graphic Novels, and Video Games 223
Chapter 22 Mind Games: Representations of Madness in Video Games Shawn Fdrei 225
Chapter 23 Graphic Narratives: Bechdel's Fun Home and Forney's Marbles Nicole Eugene 233
Chapter 24 The X-Men as Metaphors: When Gayness Was Illness Mariel Freeman Lifschutz 243
Chapter 25 Arkham Asylum's Criminally Insane Inmates and Psychotic Psychiatrists Sharon Packer 253
Chapter 26 Halfworld's Loonies in Rocket Raccoon Comics-Serious or Satire? Sharon Packer 265
Chapter 27 Van Gogh and the Changing Perceptions of Mental Illness and Art E. Deidre Pribram 277
Chapter 28 From the Beats to Jean-Michel Basquiat: Cultural Madness and Mad Art Morgan Shipley 287
Chapter 29 "Autists" and Merchandising "Autistic Art" Leni Van Goidsenhoven 299
Chapter 30 Slipping into Silent Hill: Transnational Trauma Brenda S. Gardenour Walter 309
Part 5 Music, Musicians, and Musical Theater 319
Chapter 31 Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, and Generation X's Suicide Symbol Robert L. Bryant Daniel Schwartz Howard L. Forman 321
Chapter 32 Metallica, Heavy Metal, and "Suicide Music" Adam W. Darlage Paul "Hoagy" Burton 331
About the Editor and Contributors 341
Index 347