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Melanie Kreitler - Mental Illness and Narrative Complexity, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Mental Illness and Narrative Complexity

An Experiential Approach to Puzzle Films and Complex Television

Av Melanie Kreitler

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Mainstream media's relationship with mental illness is fraught. Deemed to misrepresent and sensationalise non-normative mental states, productions are said to solidify harmful attitudes in their audiences. Over the past two decades, puzzle films and complex TV shows have broken with time-honoured tropes of mental illness, offering alternative ways of visualising and narrating non-normative mental states.Bringing together cognitive media studies, narrative theory and cultural studies, Melanie Kreitler explores the synergy between complex narrative structures and representations of mental illness. Focusing on US American films and TV shows since the mid-1990s, the book shows how complex productions strategically use their narrative structures to evoke in viewers an experience similar to that of the neuro-non-normative protagonist. Moving beyond the formal characteristics and cognitive effects of narrative complexity, this book argues for the cultural impact that puzzle films and complex television can have on our understanding of mental illness on and off screens.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-12-31
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x 21 mm
  • Vikt: 532 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 264
  • Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN: 9781399542012
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Dr Melanie Kreitler is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Giessen at the Department of Anglophone Literary, Cultural and Media Studies and MSCA fellow at Ghent University, Belgium. She is the author of Mental Illness and Narrative Complexity (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) as well as co-editor of the volume Diversity Issues in the USA (with Greta Olson, transcript, 2024) and the special issues “Illness, Narrated” (with with Silvia Boide, Benjamin Brendel and Maaike Hommes, On_Culture 2021), “Queer Politics in Media and Legal Cultures” (with Laura Borchert, Amerikastudien/AmericanStudies 2024) and “Mental TV” (with Marta Lopera-Mármol, Series 2025).

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Melanie Kreitler's book stages an important intervention in debates on narrative complexity. It shows convincingly how complex form is not only a source of attractive puzzlement but a tool of serious cognitive and even phenomenological exploration of mental illness. Developing this argument through a series of case studies drawn from contemporary film and TV, Kreitler overturns assumptions about cognitive approaches to media by demonstrating how cognitive and social meaning-making can work in tandem.

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