Cinema's sinister psychiatrists : from Caligari to Hannibal

• Tác giả: Sharon Packer
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN: 9780786463909 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 791.436165 Motion pictures, radio, television
• Thông tin xuất bản: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, c2012.
• Mô tả vật lý: ix, 245 p. : , ill. ; , 26 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Kiến trúc, nghệ thuật, hội họa
• ID: 349121
• Chủ đề: 1. Mental health personnel in motion pictures; 2. Psychiatry in motion pictures; 3. Psychoanalysis in motion pictures

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-232) and index. Includes filmography (p. 219-222).

Tóm tắt

"This book discusses films with diabolical drugging, unethical experimentation, involuntary incarceration, sexual exploitation, lobotomies, "shock schlock," conspiracy theories and military medicine, to show how fact informs fantasy, and when fantasy trumps reality. Except for six "golden years" from 1957 to 1963, portrayals of bad psychiatrists far outnumber good ones and this book tells how and why that was"-- Provided by publisher.