A Selected Annotated Bibliography on Portrayal of Schizophrenia in Film
Cross, Simon. “Visualizing Madness: Mental Illness and Public Representation.” Television and New Media. 2004 http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=23&hid=106&sid=0b1c3a10-d0da-4835-a312-a6a077b24944%40sessionmgr115. Simon Cross at University of Lincoln explores images of madness and mental illness through television program makers. He suggests to television consumers that the mentally ill whom are depicted in TV programs are usually shown as being “dangerous.” Cross suggests an approach to public representation of mental illness with television programs holding social responsibility of accurate depiction. Cross’s research helps to explain to television consumers the extremely identifiable figures depicted as mentally ill. These findings will help support my research about the portrayal of mentally ill in the media.
Heinrichs, R. Walter. “Historical Origins of Schizophrenia: Two Early Madmen and their Illness.” Journal of the History of Behavioral Science. 2003 http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=20&hid=22&sid=9c7ef2c8-a64c-4000-9f63-0f4adc3c6c01%40sessionmgr15R. Walter Heinrichs discuss historical accounts of Schizophrenia in the eighteenth and fourteenth centuries. He suggests these two cases to historians in order to discuss the past in relationship to the present in regards to Schizophrenia. These cases may suggest that Schizophrenia, although seen as a “new” illness, has been around longer than historians and medical experts thought. Heinrichs findings are very helpful in the medical and historical fields of research. These findings will help in my research to provide an origin and historical background of Schizophrenia.
Kondo, Naomi. “Speaking Out: Mental Illness in Film.” Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal 2007 https://blackboard.unh.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp.
Noami Kondo of Wesleyan University , suggests to the public at large about the incorrect and negative portrayals of Mental Illness in film, being a Schizophrenic herself. Kondo draws on personal experience to support her findings. Film, says Kondo, being such a powerful avenue of information, adds stigma to an already misunderstood disease. She draws on examples of Hollywood movie portrayals of mental illness, specifically Schizophrenia, and explains how they are inaccurate, stigmatized and even insulting to patients with this disease. Kondo gives personal insight on the topic of depictions of mental illness in film which will give me a greater understanding of inaccurate portrayals of Schizophrenia in movies such as A Beautiful Mind.