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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Part One Cinema: The Big Screen
Chapter 1 Psychoanalytic Renditions and Film Noir Traditions
Chapter 2 The Meme of Escaped (Male) Mental Patients in American Horror Films
Chapter 3 Filming Hallucinations for A Beautiful Mind, Black Swan, Spider, and Take Shelter
Chapter 4 Dissociative Identity Disorder in Horror Cinema (You D.I.D.n’t See That Coming)
Chapter 5 Spirit Possession, Mental Illness, and the Movies, or What’s Gotten into You?
Chapter 6 Hitchcock: Master of Suspense and Mental Illness
Chapter 7 McMurphy the Trickster, Foucault, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Chapter 8 “Nature Played Me a Dirty Trick”: Illness vs. Tolerance in Gay-Themed Film
Part Two Television: The Small Screen
Chapter 9 Women’s Agency as Madness: “The Yellow Wallpaper” to Penny Dreadful
Chapter 10 Orange Is the New Color for Mental Illness
Chapter 11 Suffering Soldiers and PTSD: From Saigon to Walton’s Mountain
Chapter 12 Mirth and Mental Illness: Television Comedy and the Human Condition
Chapter 13 Mentally Ill Mobsters: From Cagney’s White Heat to Scarface to Bugsy and Crazy Joe
Chapter 14 How Traditional Holiday TV Movies Depict Mental Illness
Chapter 15 Cotard’s Syndrome in True Detective, Alien Invaders, Zombies, and Pod People
Chapter 16 House, Monk, Dexter, and Hannibal: “Super-Powered” Mentally Ill TV Characters
Part Three Novels, Poetry, Memoirs, and Short Stories
Chapter 17 Sanity and Perception in Philip K. Dick’s Clans of the Alphane Moon
Chapter 18 Medea, Mothers, and Madness: Classical Culture in Popular Culture
Chapter 19 Narratives in The Snake Pit, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, and Girl, Interrupted
Chapter 20 Edgar Allan Poe’s Unreliable Narrators, or “Madmen Know Nothing”
Chapter 21 Lovecraft and “An Open Slice of Howling Fear”
Part Four Comics, Art, Graphic Novels, and Video Games
Chapter 22 Mind Games: Representations of Madness in Video Games
Chapter 23 Graphic Narratives: Bechdel’s Fun Home and Forney’s Marbles
Chapter 24 The X-Men as Metaphors: When Gayness Was Illness
Chapter 25 Arkham Asylum’s Criminally Insane Inmates and Psychotic Psychiatrists
Chapter 26 Halfworld’s Loonies in Rocket Raccoon Comics—Serious or Satire?
Chapter 27 Van Gogh and the Changing Perceptions of Mental Illness and Art
Chapter 28 From the Beats to Jean-Michel Basquiat: Cultural Madness and Mad Art
Chapter 29 “Autists” and Merchandising “Autistic Art”
Chapter 30 Slipping into Silent Hill: Transnational Trauma
Part Five Music, Musicians, and Musical Theater
Chapter 31 Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, and Generation X’s Suicide Symbol
Chapter 32 Metallica, Heavy Metal, and “Suicide Music”
About the Editor and Contributors
Index
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