Representations of Illness in Literature and Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Representations of Illness in Literature and Film write by Bennett Kravitz. This book was released on 2010-03-08. Representations of Illness in Literature and Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the ways that various syndromes, disorders and diseases appear in modern literature and film. What is especially interesting is that rather than be portrayed as an insurmountable handicap, limitation becomes the hero of the novels and films under discussion. What once would have been rejected as flawed, ill, diseased or unworthy has now earned the opportunity to be included into mainstream society. By accepting the other, these works of art allow previous outcasts of society into the mainstream to affirm their moral worth, skill and intelligence. Representations of Illness in Literature and Film analyzes the deconstruction of the above mentioned syndromes, disorders and diseases to describe their reception in the 21st-century, postmodern world.
Malady and Mortality
Malady and Mortality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Malady and Mortality write by Helen Thomas. This book was released on 2016-06-22. Malady and Mortality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This ground-breaking study examines visual and literary responses to, and representations of, illness, dying and death from the perspective of the chronically ill, their families and carers, medics, artists, photographers, authors, and academics. It encourages a re-examination of cultural taboos and visual and literary practices that engage with illness and death. Focusing upon a wide range of creative and critical engagements, this book makes a significant contribution to the medical humanities via its exploration of medical practice, literature and film, digital media studies, graphic design, and both contemporary and historical attitudes towards illness, death (including infant mortality), mourning and bereavement. For some, the experience of illness provokes feelings of exile, crisis or social critique, whilst for others it instigates utopian discourses predicated upon personal reflection, communication or connectivity, wherein the “self” is redefined beyond the parameters and constraints of the “body”.
Mental Disorders in Popular Film
Mental Disorders in Popular Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mental Disorders in Popular Film write by Erin Heath. This book was released on 2019-02-28. Mental Disorders in Popular Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Mental Illness in Popular Media
Mental Illness in Popular Media - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mental Illness in Popular Media write by Lawrence C. Rubin. This book was released on 2014-01-10. Mental Illness in Popular Media available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Whether in movies, cartoons, commercials, or even fast food marketing, psychology and mental illness remain pervasive in popular culture. In this collection of new essays, scholars from a range of fields explore representations of mental illness and disabilities across various media of popular culture. Contributors address how forms of psychiatric disorder have been addressed in film, on stage, and in literature, how popular culture genres are utilized to communicate often confusing and conflicted relationships with the mentally ill, and how popular cultures around the world reflect mental illness and disability. Analyses of sources as disparate as the Batman films, Broadway musicals and Nigerian home movies reveal how definitions of mental illness, mental health, and of psychology itself intersect with discourses on race, gender, law, capitalism, and globalization. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS
Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS write by Aimee Pozorski. This book was released on 2019-11-06. Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS: Forty Years Later depicts how film and literature about the HIV/AIDS crisis expand upon the issues generated by the epidemic. This collection fills an important gap in the scholarship on HIV/AIDS, by bringing together essays by both established and junior scholars on visual and literary representations of HIV/AIDS. Almost forty years after the first reported cases of what would later be defined as AIDS, this book looks back across the decades at works of literature and film to discuss how the representation of HIV/AIDS has shifted in media. This book argues that literature constitutes a very powerful response to AIDS that ripples into film and politics, driving the changes in past and contemporary representations of HIV/AIDS. The book also expands discussion of the issues generated and amplified by the epidemic to consider how HIV/AIDS has been portrayed in the United States, Western and Southern Africa, Western Europe, and East Asia.
