People like ourselves : portrayals of mental illness in the movies /

Little has been written, however, about the ability of movies to portray mental illness sympathetically and accurately. Zimmerman fills that void with a close look at mental illness in more than seventy American movies, beginning with classics such as The Snake Pit and Now, Voyager and including suc...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Zimmerman, Jacqueline Noll, 1948-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, c2003.
Series:Studies in film genres ; no. 3.
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