TY  - BOOK
AU  - Szymanski,Adam
TI  - Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism: Depression and the Politics of Existence 
SN  - 9789048550319
U1  - 791.436561 
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
KW  - Depression, Mental
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Depressions in motion pictures
KW  - AUP Wetenschappelijk
KW  - Amsterdam University Press
KW  - Film Studies
KW  - Film, Media, and Communication
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Psychology
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Film Theory, global art cinema, film philosophy, film psychology, mental health
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; Perceiving the Pandemic --; 1. The Psychosocial Image --; 2. The Neuroplastic Paradox --; 3. Belief and the Common World of Experience --; 4. Ecosophy and Peace --; 5. Healing and Decolonization --; For Therapeutic Activisms --; Bibliography --; Filmography --; About the Author --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048550319?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048550319
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048550319/original
ER  -