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Mind Reeling
Psychopathology on Film
Edited by Homer B. Pettey
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Across a variety of genres, shows how mental disorders are depicted in cinema.
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.
About the Author:
Homer B. Pettey is Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at the University of Arizona. He is the editor of several books, including Hitchcock's Moral Gaze (with R. Barton Palmer and Steven M. Sanders) and Rule Brittannia! The Biopic and British National Identity (with R. Barton Palmer), both also published by SUNY Press.
Press Reviews:
"Pettey's distinctive, innovative collection departs from staid psychological analysis and introduces readers to a narrative, aesthetic method by which to analyze the representation of psychopathology in film, a method both engaging and enlightening … Highly recommended. " — CHOICE
See the publisher website: State University of New York Press
> From the same author:
Alfred Hitchcock and Film Noir (2024)
The Darker Side
Dir. R. Barton Palmer and Homer B. Pettey
Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock
The Literary Films of Richard Brooks (2023)
Dir. R. Barton Palmer and Homer B. Pettey
Subject: Director > Richard Brooks
Rule, Britannia! (2019)
The Biopic and British National Identity
Dir. Homer B. Pettey and R. Barton Palmer
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
French Literature on Screen (2019)
Dir. Homer B. Pettey and R. Barton Palmer
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
Hitchcock's Moral Gaze (2018)
Dir. R. Barton Palmer, Homer B. Pettey and Steven M. Sanders
Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock
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