Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism

Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism

Author: Adam Szymanski

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

ISBN: 9789048550319

Category: Performing Arts

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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.
Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism
Language: en
Pages:

Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism

Authors: Adam Szymanski
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-25 - Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

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
The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism
Language: en
Pages: 512

The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism

Authors: Maria Berghs, Tsitsi Chataika, Yahya El-Lahib, Kudakwashe Dube
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-28 - Publisher: Routledge

The onslaught of neoliberalism, austerity measures and cuts, impact of climate change, protracted conflicts and ongoing refugee crisis, rise of far right and populist movements have all negatively impacted on disability. Yet, disabled people and their allies are fighting back and we urgently need to understand how, where and what
Knowledges, Practices and Activism from Feminist Epistemologies
Language: en
Pages: 240

Knowledges, Practices and Activism from Feminist Epistemologies

Authors: Eulalia Pérez Sedeño, Lola S. Almendros, S. García Dauder, Esther Ortega Arjonilla
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-15 - Publisher: Vernon Press

Science, Technology and Gender studies (STG) include the different approaches to feminist epistemologies, their current debates and also the theoretical analysis of different scientific controversies around cases that involve women's bodies and health, sex/gender, and techno-scientific practices. These studies are linked to the demand for another type of hybrid knowledge
The Grace of Destruction
Language: en
Pages: 288

The Grace of Destruction

Authors: Elena del Río
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-05 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

For Elena del Río, extreme cinema is not only qualitatively different from the representations of violence we encounter in popular, mainstream cinema; it also constitutes a critique of the socio-moral system that produces (in every sense of the word) such violence. Drawing inspiration from Deleuze's ethics of immanence, Spinoza's ethology
Women’s Cinema, World Cinema
Language: en
Pages: 280

Women’s Cinema, World Cinema

Authors: Patricia White
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-26 - Publisher: Duke University Press

In Women’s Cinema, World Cinema, Patricia White explores the dynamic intersection of feminism and film in the twenty-first century by highlighting the work of a new generation of women directors from around the world: Samira and Hana Makhmalbaf, Nadine Labaki, Zero Chou, Jasmila Zbanic, and Claudia Llosa, among others. The