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Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism - Depression and the Politics of Existence

English · Hardback

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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 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 thought, Adam Szymanski proposes a thoroughly relational understanding of depression attentive to eventful, collective and contingent qualities of subjectivity. What emerges is a melancholy aesthetics attuned to the existential contours and political stakes of health. Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism adventurously builds affinities across the lines of national, linguistic and cultural difference. The films of Angela Schanelec, Kelly Reichardt, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Kanakan Balintagos are grouped together for the first time, constituting a polystylistic common front of artist-physicians who live, work, and create on the belief that life can be more liveable.

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Adam Szymanski is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.

Product details

Authors Adam Szymanski, Dr Adam Szymanski, DR. (ENG) Adam Szymanski
Publisher Amsterdam University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.10.2020
 
EAN 9789463723121
ISBN 978-94-63-72312-1
No. of pages 182
Series Amsterdam University Press
Subject Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet

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