1st Edition

Warped Minds Cinema and Psychopathology

By Temenuga Trifonova Copyright 2014
284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

Warped Minds explores the transformation of psychopathologies into cultural phenomena in the wake of the transition from an epistemological to an ontological approach to psychopathology. Trifonova considers several major points in this intellectual history: the development of a dynamic model of the self at the fin de siècle , the role of photography and film in the construction of... Read more
Introduction, Chapter 1 The Story of Attention: Toward a Dynamic Model of the Self Chapter 2 Photography and the Construction of Psychopathology at the Fin de Siècle Chapter 3 Cinema and Psychoanalysis Chapter 4 Multiple Personality and the Hollywood 'Multiple' Film Chapter 5 Paranoia and the Geopolitical Conspiracy Thriller, Index.

Biography

Temenuga Trifonova is Associate Professor in Creative Arts and Humanities at University College London. She is the author of Screening the Art World, The Figure of the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema, Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime, Warped Minds: Cinema and Psychopathology, European Film Theory, The Image in French Philosophy, and the novels Tourist and Rewrite.