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RX Hollywood: Cinema and Therapy in the 1960s

RX Hollywood: Cinema and Therapy in the 1960s

Deangelis, Michael

Paperback

Series: Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema

Film StudiesGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 1438468520
ISBN13: 9781438468525
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 2 2019
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

How films of the 1960s and early 1970s framed therapeutic issues as problems of human communication, and individual psychological problems as social ones.

Rx Hollywood investigates how therapy surfaced in the themes, representations, and narrative strategies of a changing film industry. In the 1960s and early 1970s, American cinema was struggling to address adult audiences who were increasingly demanding films that confronted contemporary issues. Focusing upon five fields of therapeutic inquiry-therapist/patient dynamics, female frigidity and male impotence, marital discord, hallucinogenic drug use, and the dynamics of confession-Michael DeAngelis argues that the films of this period reveal an emergent, common tendency of therapy to work toward the formation of a stronger sense of interpersonal, community/social, and political engagement, counteracting alienation and social division in the spirit of connection and community.

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