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Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism
Adam Szymanski
其他書名
Depression and the Politics of Existence
出版
Amsterdam University Press
, 2020-09-25
主題
Performing Arts / Film / General
Philosophy / Aesthetics
Psychology / Psychopathology / Depression
ISBN
9048550319
9789048550319
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=aCb_DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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 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.