Cinema's Sinister Psychiatrists
From Caligari to Hannibal
Film history is merged with psychiatric history seamlessly, to show how and why bad depictions of mind doctors (especially hypnotists) occur in early film, long before Hannibal Lecter burst upon the scene. The German Expressionist Dr. Caligari launches the stereotype of screen psychiatrists who are sicker than their patients. Many film psychiatrists function as political metaphors, while many more reflect real life clinical controversies. This book discusses films with diabolical drugging, unethical experimentation, involuntary incarceration, sexual exploitation, lobotomies, shock schlock, conspiracy theories and military medicine, to show ho…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7864-6390-9
- EAN: 9780786463909
- Produktnummer: 13379122
- Verlag: McFarland & Co Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H25.7 cm x B17.8 cm x D3.3 cm 472 g
- Abbildungen: 37 photographs, filmography
- Gewicht: 472
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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