Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism - Depression and the Politics of Existence (Hardcover)

The hegemonic meaning of depression as a universal mental illness embodied by an individualized subject is propped up by psychiatry's clinical gaze. Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism turns to the work of contemporary filmmakers who express a shared concern for mental health under global capitalism to explore how else depression can be perceived. In taking their critical visions as intercessors for thought, Adam Szymanski proposes a thoroughly relational understanding of depression attentive to eventful, collective and contingent qualities of subjectivity. What emerges is a melancholy aesthetics attuned to the existential contours and political stakes of health. Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism adventurously builds affinities across the lines of national, linguistic and cultural difference. The films of Angela Schanelec, Kelly Reichardt, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Kanakan Balintagos are grouped together for the first time, constituting a polystylistic common front of artist-physicians who live, work, and create on the belief that life can be more liveable.

General

Imprint:	Amsterdam University Press
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Release date:	October 2020
Authors:	Adam Szymanski
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	182
ISBN-13:	978-9463723121
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Abnormal psychology Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
LSN:	9463723129
Barcode:	9789463723121

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