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- Title
MENTAL ILLNESS DOCUMENTARIES AT THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA: FILMMAKING AS THERAPEUTIC ACTIVISM.
- Authors
SZYMANSKI, ADAM
- Abstract
The National Film Board of Canada's catalogue expresses a longstanding concern for mental health. This article proposes a cluster of documentaries about living with mental illness as unique contributors to the NFB's heritage of activist filmmaking. Through close analysis of four documentaries made between 1977 and 2010, it makes the case that filmmakers enacted a radical type of mental health activism which called into question the epistemological foundations of psychiatry while imbuing discourses of mental health with a political and existential dimension.
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Film Studies, 2019, Vol 28, Issue 2, p23
- ISSN
0847-5911
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3138/cjfs.28.2.2019-0037