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People Like Ourselves: Portrayals of Mental Illness in the Movies

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People Like Ourselves: Portrayals of Mental Illness in the Movies - Zimmerman, Jacqueline Noll
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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 such contemporary successes as A Beautiful Mind and As Good as It Gets .

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People Like Ourselves: Portrayals of Mental Illness in the Movies 2003, Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD

ISBN-13: 9780810848764

Hardcover