Dinesh Bhugra

Mad Tales from Bollywood

Portrayal of Mental Illness in Conventional Hindi Cinema

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Produktbeschreibung

Mad Tales from Bollywood is the first book to investigate how mental illness is portrayed in Hindi cinema. It will be of interest to psychiatrists, mental health professionals and students of media and cultural studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781138881518
• ISBN-10: 1138881511
• Artikelnr.: 42796169

Autorenporträt

Dinesh Bhugra is Professor of Mental Health & Cultural Diversity at the Institute of Psychiatry. He has written extensively on cultural factors and mental illness, psychosexual medicine and spirituality.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Cinema's Culture. Culture and Mental Illness. Cinema and Emotion.
Attitudes Towards Mental Illness. Socio-economic Factors and Cinema in
India. History of Hindi Cinema. Indian Personality, Villainy and History.
Fifties Fun, Funtoosh and Kishore Kumar. Psychoanalysis in the Films of the
1960s. Arrival of the New Villain. Rootless Eighties and Fundamental
Nineties. Why Should Women Remain Behind? New Century: New Villains. Family
Fun, Frolics and Madness in Khilona. Electric Shock Treatment in Hindi
Cinema. Conclusions.