Demons of the Mind: Psychiatry and Cinema in the Long 1960s - Brossura

Snelson, Tim; Macauley, William; Kirby, David Allen

 
9781474486422: Demons of the Mind: Psychiatry and Cinema in the Long 1960s
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ISBN 10: 1474486428 ISBN 13: 9781474486422
Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2025

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In the 1960s, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals intervened in and influenced cinema culture in unprecedented ways, changing how films were conceived, produced, censored, exhibited and received by audiences.
Drawing upon extensive archival research, Demons of the Mind provides the first interdisciplinary account of the complex contestations and cross-pollinations of the ‘psy’ sciences (psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychology) and cinema in Britain and America during the defining ‘long 1960s’ period of the late-1950s to early-1970s.
This interdisciplinary book incorporates expertise from film studies, history of science and medicine, and science communication. The originality of this book is not solely its interdisciplinarity and exploration beyond the narrow study of representational practices – typically the primary focus of other books on cinema and the psy professions. In large part, this book’s originality rests on its investigation of situated practices and interplay between ideas, expertise and professionals that constitute the fields of mental health and media.

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Editore
Edinburgh Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2025
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1474486428
ISBN 13 
9781474486422
Rilegatura
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Numero di pagine
232
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