Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism
Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism The hegemonic meaning of depression as a universal mental illness embodied by an individualized subject is propped up by psychiatry's clinical gaze. In taking their…
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Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism
The hegemonic meaning of depression as a universal mental illness embodied by an individualized subject is propped up by psychiatry's clinical gaze. 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. 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.
The films of Angela Schanelec, Kelly Reichardt, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and 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.
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