Cinema's Sinister Psychiatrists: From Caligari to Hannibal

by Sharon Packer

Film history is merged with psychiatric history seamlessly, to show how and why bad depictions of mind doctors (especially hypnotists) occur in early film, long before Hannibal Lecter burst upon the scene. The German Expressionist Dr. Caligari is not cinema's first psychotic charlatan, but he launches the stereotype of screen psychiatrists who are sicker than their patients. Many film psychiatrists function as political metaphors, while many more...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786463902
• ISBN13: 9780786463909
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher