Cinema's Sinister Psychiatrists: From Caligari to Hannibal by Sharon Packer

Cinema's Sinister Psychiatrists: From Caligari to Hannibal

Sharon Packer

245 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

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Film history is merged with psychiatric history seamlessly, to show how and why bad depictions of mind doctors (especially hypnotists) occur in early film, long before Hannibal Lecter burst upon the scene. The German Expressionist Dr. Caligari is ...

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