Mad Tales From Bollywood - Portrayal of Mental Illness in Conventional Hindi Cinema

Mad Tales from Bollywood is the first book to investigate how mental illness is portrayed in Hindi cinema. It will be of interest to psychiatrists, mental health professionals and students of media and cultural studies.

List of contents

Preface. Cinema's Culture. Culture and Mental Illness. Cinema and Emotion. Attitudes Towards Mental Illness. Socio-economic Factors and Cinema in India. History of Hindi Cinema. Indian Personality, Villainy and History. Fifties Fun, Funtoosh and Kishore Kumar. Psychoanalysis in the Films of the 1960s. Arrival of the New Villain. Rootless Eighties and Fundamental Nineties. Why Should Women Remain Behind? New Century: New Villains. Family Fun, Frolics and Madness in Khilona. Electric Shock Treatment in Hindi Cinema. Conclusions.

About the author

Dinesh Bhugra is Professor of Mental Health & Cultural Diversity at the Institute of Psychiatry. He has written extensively on cultural factors and mental illness, psychosexual medicine and spirituality.

Summary

Mad Tales from Bollywood is the first book to investigate how mental illness is portrayed in Hindi cinema. It will be of interest to psychiatrists, mental health professionals and students of media and cultural studies.

Product details

• Authors: Dinesh Bhugra, Bhugra Dinesh
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.06.2015
• EAN: 9781138881518
• ISBN: 978-1-138-88151-8
• Series: Maudsley Series; Maudsley
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; History, Media Studies, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Films, cinema, Psychotherapy, Humanities, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General