Rare bird!

Patrick Fuery’s Madness and Cinema examines the long, sticky relationship between cinema, psychoanalysis, spectatorship, and cultural ideas of madness. Rather than treating madness simply as a theme represented on screen, Fuery is interested in how cinema itself produces, organises, and circulates psychic disturbance: how spectatorship, desire, confinement, fear, fantasy, and image-making become part of the same machinery.

This is film theory in the proper haunted-house sense: Freud, Foucault, spectatorship, cultural pathology, genre, and the unstable border between looking and being looked at. A strong fit for readers interested in psychoanalytic film theory, media studies, cultural studies, horror, madness as social category, and the politics of representation. Not one for a casual “best movies about mental illness” listicle. Thankfully.

Rare Palgrave Macmillan paperback, first published 2004. First printing. Good second-hand condition, with light shelfwear, minor cover and edge wear, and mild page toning. Binding sound and text clean.