1st Edition
Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism Depression and the Politics of Existence
By Adam Szymanski
Copyright 2020
182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction: Perceiving the Pandemic, Chapter One: The Psychosocial Image, Chapter Two: The Neuroplastic Paradox, Chapter Three: Belief and the Common World of Experience, Chapter Four: Ecosophy and Peace, Chapter Five: Healing and Decolonization, Conclusion: For Therapeutic Activisms, Bibliography, Filmography, Index.
Biography
Adam Szymanski is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.
Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism is a strikingly original and unusually insightful work that breaks very new ground for film and media philosophy. It should be-will be-recognized as a pioneering work of therapeutic activism, which no one in film studies has considered. I know of nothing like it. - Brian Price, Professor of Cinema Studies, University of Toronto.
