Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism: Depression and the Politics of Existence

by Adam Szymański

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9463723129
• ISBN13: 9789463723121
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 182 Pages