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Images of madness : the portrayal of insanity in the feature film

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextRutherford, NJ/London Fairleigh Dickinson University Press/Associated University Presses c1985Description: 365p.; ill.; filmography; bibliog.; indicesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0838631126
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.M463 F54 1985
Contents:
Part 1 - Themes of madness - Michael Fleming. 1 Society and madness. 2 Possession as madness. 3 Eros and madness. 4 Murder and madness. 5 War and madness. 6 Drugs and madness. 7 Paranoia and madness. 8 Sanity as madness, madness as sanity. 9 Madness and the psychiatrist. Part 2 - Filmography: synopeses and annotations - Roger Manvell. Part 3 - Bibliography
Abstract: '...the first fully researched assessment of the American and European cinema's portrayal of insanity in key feature films over half a century.'
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Part 1 - Themes of madness - Michael Fleming. 1 Society and madness. 2 Possession as madness. 3 Eros and madness. 4 Murder and madness. 5 War and madness. 6 Drugs and madness. 7 Paranoia and madness. 8 Sanity as madness, madness as sanity. 9 Madness and the psychiatrist. Part 2 - Filmography: synopeses and annotations - Roger Manvell. Part 3 - Bibliography

'...the first fully researched assessment of the American and European cinema's portrayal of insanity in key feature films over half a century.'

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