People Like Ourselves: Portrayals of Mental Illness in the Movies

by Jacqueline Noll Zimmerman

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810848767
• ISBN13: 9780810848764
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.9"