Cinemas of therapeutic activism : depression and the politics of existence / / Adam Szymanski [[electronic resource]]
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Szymanski Adam
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| Titolo: |
Cinemas of therapeutic activism : depression and the politics of existence / / Adam Szymanski [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (181 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 791.436561 |
| Soggetto topico: | Mental illness in motion pictures |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Film Theory, global art cinema, film philosophy, film psychology, mental health |
| Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020). |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Perceiving the pandemic -- The psychosocial image -- The neuroplastic paradox -- Belief and the common world of experience -- Ecosophy and peace -- Healing and decolonization -- For therapeutic activisms. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 of 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Cinemas of therapeutic activism |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910815341003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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