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Movies and the Modern Psyche
Sharon Packer MD
出版
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
, 2007-09-30
主題
Performing Arts / Film / General
Social Science / Popular Culture
Performing Arts / General
ISBN
1573567280
9781573567282
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=1bzOEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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By looking at the interactions between cinema and psychology, Packer offers readers clear and basic insights into some of the most fundamental reasons why film is such an important influence upon our lives today.
Movies and the Modern Psyche
first describes the basic concepts of psychoanalysis, experimental psychology, behavioral conditioning, and hypnosis, which have all played major roles in the histories of both film and psychiatry. It then goes on to discuss the recent rise in film therapy, drug treatments, treatment for drug abuse, and the closing of asylums, to show how shifts in treatment techniques, theories, and settings are foreshadowed and fossilized by film.
Psychology and cinema are kindred cousins, born at the same time and developing together, so that each influences the other. From the mind-controlling villains that occupy early horror films and Cold War thrillers (like
Caligari, Mabuse
, and
The Ipcress File
), to the asylums that house numberless political allegories and personal dramas (in
Shock Corridor, Spellbound, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
, and
Girl Interrupted
), to the drugs, phobias, and disorders that pervade so many of our favorite films (including, as a small sample,
Vertigo, Night of the Hunter, Psycho, Rainman, Fight Club, Requiem for a Dream
, and
Batman Begins
), there is no escaping either psychology in the movies, or the movies in psychology. By looking at the interactions between cinema and psychology, this book offers readers clear and basic insights into some of the most fundamental reasons why film is such an important influence upon our lives today.
Movies and the Modern Psyche
first describes the basic concepts of psychoanalysis, experimental psychology, behavioral conditioning, and hypnosis, which have all played major roles in the histories of both film and psychiatry. It then goes on to discuss the recent rise in film therapy, drug treatments, treatment for drug abuse, and the closing of asylums, to show how shifts in treatment techniques, theories, and settings are foreshadowed and fossilized by film.