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Author:   Aleksei Grinenko
Publisher:   The University of Michigan Press
Imprint:   The University of Michigan Press
Weight:   0.272kg
ISBN:  

9780472056446

ISBN 10:   0472056441
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   05 October 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Part One. Madness in the Mind. “Make a Date with a Great Psychoanalyst…”: Gazing Inward in the Dual Golden Age “Make up your mind! Make up your mind!”: The Neurotic Interior and the Dynamic Unconscious in the 1940s and Beyond Part Two. Madness in Society “There Are Heroes in the World…”:Psychiatric Activism, Antipsychiatry, and Political Consciousness “To Dream the Impossible Dream…”: Communities of Madness in the Musicals of the Long Sixties “Is That Just Disgusting?”: Filth, Madness, and the City in Sweeney Todd and Other Musicals Part Three. Madness in the Brain “What a Lovely Cure!”: Staging the Interior in the New Age of Diagnostic Psychiatry “Sing a song of forgetting…”: Listening to the Unconscious in Next to Normal Conclusion: Contemporary Visions of Madness as Depth Theatre Bibliography

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"""An original piece of work that addresses a notable gap in the field . . . Seriously Mad not only brings madness and musicals into dialogue but forges important ground in terms of the serious exploration of musical theater practice . . . Grinenko takes interest in the ways in which psychoanalysis shapes theatrical practice but also the broader cultural atmosphere around 'broken' minds."" --Anna Harpin, University of Warwick ""Reveals the complicated--and yet often repeated--intersection of musical theater and contemporaneous understandings of mental illness, in examples spanning decades. The research spans numerous fields including musical theater and the history of psychoanalysis, which are brought together in an entirely readable and persuasive way . . . The book will have an enormous impact on multiple fields."" --Jessica Sternfeld, Chapman University"

""An original piece of work that addresses a notable gap in the field . . . Seriously Mad not only brings madness and musicals into dialogue but forges important ground in terms of the serious exploration of musical theater practice . . . Grinenko takes interest in the ways in which psychoanalysis shapes theatrical practice but also the broader cultural atmosphere around 'broken' minds."" --Anna Harpin, University of Warwick ""Reveals the complicated--and yet often repeated--intersection of musical theater and contemporaneous understandings of mental illness, in examples spanning decades. The research spans numerous fields including musical theater and the history of psychoanalysis, which are brought together in an entirely readable and persuasive way . . . The book will have an enormous impact on multiple fields."" --Jessica Sternfeld, Chapman University

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Aleksei Grinenko teaches theater history at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

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