People Like Ourselves - Portrayals of Mental Illness in the Movies

Little has been written, however, about the ability of movies to portray mental illness sympathetically and accurately. Zimmerman fills that void with a close look at mental illness in more than seventy American movies, beginning with classics such as The Snake Pit and Now, Voyager and including such contemporary successes as A Beautiful Mind and As Good as It Gets.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 1. The Price of Conformity: The False Self Chapter 4 2. The Denial of Reality Chapter 5 3. Hitchcock, Chaos, and the Devils of Unreason Chapter 6 4. Women Who Can't Forget Chapter 7 5. Divine Madness: Poets, Prophets, and Demons Chapter 8 6. War: A Battle for the Mind and Spirit Chapter 9 7. Violence and Mental Illness: A Good Movie Is Hard to Find Chapter 10 Notes Chapter 11 Sources Cited Chapter 12 Films Discussed and/or Cited Chapter 13 Index Chapter 14 About the Author

About the author

Jacqueline Noll Zimmerman is a retired college professor and communications manager.

Product details

• Authors: Jacqueline Noll Zimmerman
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.09.2003
• EAN: 9780810848764
• ISBN: 978-0-8108-4876-4
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 222 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 370 g
• Series: Studies in Film Genres
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV