Mad Tales from Bollywood
Subtitle: Portrayal of Mental Illnes in Conventional Hindi Cinema (Maudsley Monographs)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: August 31, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781841696461
Subjects: Psychology; Medical; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Medical / Psychiatry; Film & Video - General; Mental Health; Psychiatry - General; India; Mental Disorders; Mental illness in motion pictures; Motion pictures
Description: This is the first book to investigate how mental illness is portrayed in Hindi cinema. It examines attitudes towards mental illness in Indian culture, how they are reflected in Hindi films, and how culture has influenced the portrayal of the psychoses. Dinesh Bhugra guides the reader through the history of Indian cinema, covering developments from the idealism of the 1950s to the stalking, jealousy and psychopathy that characterized the films of the 1990s. Critiques of individual films reveal the culture's approach towards mental illness and reflect the impact of culture on films and vice versa. Subjects covered include: · Cinema and emotion · Attitudes towards mental illness · Socio-economic factors and cinema in India · Indian personality, villainy and history · Psychoanalysis in the films of the 1960s. Mad Tales from Bollywood will be of interest to psychiatrists, mental health professionals, students of media and cultural studies and all those with an interest in Indian culture.