A summary chapter to close this part of the book would have been helpful. In its absence, the goals presented in the introduction are left hanging. This chapter could also have identified trends revealed by the authors' investigation and directions for future work. As for future work, l would suggest a closer investigation of visual depictions of the insane in the movies. The film listings include credits, which vary considerably in detail, and a cross-referencing of each movie to one or more of the themes covered in Fleming's chapters.
Commentaries range from a paragraph to several pages in length and are fascinating to read.
Whatever the shortcomings of this book, the authors deserve credit for venturing into this territory. Fleming and Manvell are quite right that feature films offer a rich mine of data on 20th-century views of insanity. Even if their book falls short of its goals, it may still prove to be influential in its delineation of the movies' recurrent themes of madness and in its cataloguing of the motion pictures that play out those themes. Cleckley, H . Contribution of the German cinema to the Nazi euthanasia program.