Mind Reeling

Psychopathology on Film

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Edited by Homer B. Pettey

Type

Studies

Subject

Sociology

Keywords

sociology, representation, psychiatry

Publishing date

2021

Publisher

State University of New York Press

Collection

SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

1st publishing

2020

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 258 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4384-8100-5

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Book Presentation:
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