| Warped Minds: Cinema and Psychopathology Contributor(s): Trifonova, Temenuga (Author) |
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ISBN: 9089646329 ISBN-13: 9789089646323 Publisher: Amsterdam University Press OUR PRICE: $153.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Film & Video |
| Dewey: 791 |
| Series: Film Culture in Transition (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.4" W x 9.4" (1.25 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 knowledge in postmodernity as evidenced by the transformation of multiple personality and paranoia into cultural and aesthetic phenomena. |
Contributor Bio(s): Trifonova, Temenuga: - Temenuga Trifonova is associate professor in the Department of Film of the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University in Toronto. |