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Mental Disorders in Popular Film - How Hollywood Uses, Shames, and Obscures Mental Diversity (Paperback)
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Mental Disorders in Popular Film - How Hollywood Uses, Shames, and Obscures Mental Diversity (Paperback)
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Contemporary Hollywood films commonly use mental disorders as a
magnifier by which social, political, or economic problems become
enlarged in order to critique societal conditions. Cinema has a
long history of amplifying human emotion or experience for dramatic
effect. The heightened representations of people with mental
disorder often elide one category of literal truths for the benefit
of different moral or emotional reasons. With films like Fight
Club, The Silence of the Lambs, The Dark Knight, and Black Swan,
this book address characters identified by film or media as people
who are crazy, mentally ill, developmentally delayed, insane, have
autism spectrum disorder, associative personality disorder, or who
have other mental disorders. Despite the vast array of differences
in people's experiences, film often marginalizes people with mental
disorders in ways that make it important to be inclusive of these
varied experiences. These characters also commonly become subject
to the structures of hierarchy and control that actual people with
mental disorders encounter. Cinematic patterns of control and
oppression heavily influence the narratives of those considered
crazy by the outside world.
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