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Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics
No full textGibson and Beneduce draw focus upon psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, a revolutionary, who was a foundational figure in postcolonial and decolonial thought and practice. This book focuses on Fanon’s key psychiatry texts, psychiatric writings, and better known work written between 1952 and 1961 (Black Skin, White Masks, A Dying Colonialism, Toward the African Revolution, The Wretched of the Earth). Offering both a clinical and political perspective, the authors draw upon a notion that shows psychiatry intersecting history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and ethnology. Gibson and Beneduce argue that his work inaugurates a critical ethnopsychiatry that is based upon a new concept of culture anchored to historical events, situations, and experiences, while also drawing upon the relationship the psychological and cultural. The authors deduce that from Fanon’s writings his wish, as put in The Wretched of the Earth is to “develop a new way of thinking, not only for us but for humanity”
The American Civil War on Film and TV: Blue and Gray in Black and White and Color
No full textCo-authors Cynthia J. Miller, Shea T. Brode, and Douglas Brode, compile nineteen essays from an array of scholars to explore issues surrounding the portrayal of the American Civil War from films such as Buster Keaton’s The General (1926), Red Badge of Courage (1951), Glory (1989), Gettysburg (1993), and Cold Mountain (2003), as well as television mini-series The Blue and The Gray (1982) and John Jakes’ acclaimed North and South trilogy (1985-86). From the big screen to the small screen films focusing on the war provide a historical education, a setting, ideologies, and also provide character archetypes for cinematic narratives of morality, gender, race, and nation. This book is accessible and devotes its context to a critical conversation about the Civil War on film