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Examines the mental health interventions that changed 1960s British and American cinemaThe first interdisciplinary study of the relationship between the ‘psy'sciences and cinema, written by scholars in the fields of film studies, history of science and medicine, and science communication The first monograph providing comparative analysis of British and American psychiatric cultures and film cultures Based on extensive primary research undertaken in British and United States film and medical archives (e.g., Margaret Herrick Library, British Board of Film Classification, Wellcome Trust, R.D. Laing collection) Draws upon funded-AHRC and Wellcome projects Six case study chapters offering fresh perspectives on the production, mediation and reception of some well-known and cult British and Hollywood films Accessibly written to appeal to non-academic audiences interested in cinema, popular science and the Sixties as well as students and other scholarsIn the 1960s, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals intervened in and influenced cinema culture in unprecedented ways, changing how films were conceived, produced, censored, exhibited and received by audiences.Drawing upon extensive archival research, Demons of the Mind provides the first interdisciplinary account of the complex contestations and cross-pollinations of the ‘psy'sciences (psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychology) and cinema in Britain and America during the defining ‘long 1960s'period of the late-1950s to early-1970s.This interdisciplinary book incorporates expertise from film studies, history of science and medicine, and science communication. The originality of this book is not solely its interdisciplinarity and exploration beyond the narrow study of representational practices – typically the primary focus of other books on cinema and the psy professions. In large part, this book's originality rests on its investigation of situated practices and interplay between ideas, expertise and professionals that constitute the fields of mental health and media. |
