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<P>"Being crazy" is generally a negative characterization today, yet many celebrated artists, leaders, and successful individuals have achieved greatness despite suffering from mental illness. This book explores the many different representations of mental illness that exist—and sometimes persist—in both traditional and new media across eras.</P>

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Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Introduction.
Cinema: The Big Screen.
1: Psychoanalytic Renditions and Film Noir Traditions.
2: The Meme of Escaped (Male) Mental Patients in American Horror Films.
3: Filming Hallucinations for A Beautiful Mind, Black Swan, Spider, and Take Shelter.
4: Dissociative Identity Disorder in Horror Cinema (You D.I.D.n&#x2019;t See That Coming).
5: Spirit Possession, Mental Illness, and the Movies, or What&#x2019;s Gotten into You?.
6: Hitchcock: Master of Suspense and Mental Illness.
7: McMurphy the Trickster, Foucault, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#x2019;s Nest.
8: &#x201C;Nature Played Me a Dirty Trick&#x201D;: Illness vs. Tolerance in Gay-Themed Film.
Television: The Small Screen.
9: Women&#x2019;s Agency as Madness: &#x201C;The Yellow Wallpaper&#x201D; to Penny Dreadful.
10: Orange Is the New Color for Mental Illness.
11: Suffering Soldiers and PTSD: From Saigon to Walton&#x2019;s Mountain.
12: Mirth and Mental Illness: Television Comedy and the Human Condition.
13: Mentally Ill Mobsters: From Cagney&#x2019;s White Heat to Scarface to Bugsy and Crazy Joe.
14: How Traditional Holiday TV Movies Depict Mental Illness.
15: Cotard&#x2019;s Syndrome in True Detective, Alien Invaders, Zombies, and Pod People.
16: House, Monk, Dexter, and Hannibal: &#x201C;Super-Powered&#x201D; Mentally Ill TV Characters.
Novels, Poetry, Memoirs, and Short Stories.
17: Sanity and Perception in Philip K. Dick&#x2019;s Clans of the Alphane Moon.
18: Medea, Mothers, and Madness: Classical Culture in Popular Culture.
19: Narratives in The Snake Pit, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, and Girl, Interrupted.
20: Edgar Allan Poe&#x2019;s Unreliable Narrators, or &#x201C;Madmen Know Nothing&#x201D;.
21: Lovecraft and &#x201C;An Open Slice of Howling Fear&#x201D;.
Comics, Art, Graphic Novels, and Video Games.
22: Mind Games: Representations of Madness in Video Games.
23: Graphic Narratives: Bechdel&#x2019;s Fun Home and Forney&#x2019;s Marbles.
24: The X-Men as Metaphors: When Gayness Was Illness.
25: Arkham Asylum&#x2019;s Criminally Insane Inmates and Psychotic Psychiatrists.
26: Halfworld&#x2019;s Loonies in Rocket Raccoon Comics&#x2014; Serious or Satire?.
27: Van Gogh and the Changing Perceptions of Mental Illness and Art.
28: From the Beats to Jean-Michel Basquiat: Cultural Madness and Mad Art.
29: &#x201C;Autists&#x201D; and Merchandising &#x201C;Autistic Art&#x201D;.
30: Slipping into Silent Hill: Transnational Trauma.
Music, Musicians, and Musical Theater.
31: Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, and Generation X&#x2019;s Suicide Symbol.
32: Metallica, Heavy Metal, and &#x201C;Suicide Music&#x201D;.
About the Editor and Contributors.
Index.

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