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- Title
Beyond Diagnosis: Representing the Hotline in The Slender Thread.
- Authors
Zeavin, Hannah
- Abstract
Revisiting the little-noted 1965 film, The Slender Thread , this article argues that its representation of the suicide hotline constellates midcentury anxieties concerning psychiatric care, race, and gender. The Slender Thread provides a story of the suicide hotline at an "early crossroads" in the history of the suicide hotline as it "turned... toward cure and the carceral while gloving that power within the protocol of this radical care." This is the Poitier Effect: Black fury is and must be sublated into Black care to bypass revolutionary action and insurrection.
- Subjects
SLENDER Thread, The (Film); POLLACK, Sydney, 1934-2008; BANCROFT, Anne; HOTLINES (Counseling); SUICIDE in motion pictures
- Publication
American Literary History, 2023, Vol 35, Issue 3, p1206
- ISSN
0896-7148
- Publication type
Film/Television Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/alh/ajad111