My tutorship forbids me to behave too emotionally, while I somehow am really disappointed by your silence at tutorials.
well well well. Now browsing some pictures taken in London by one of you, I suddenly feel much better for I am kind of reminded of the warmth and heart you put into our mini-project. Still want to thank you all and let us move on.
THIS IS THE PPT from the presentation group of Melanie & Nicole for 4-5PM
Outline
Introduction
What is madness?
A gendered madness?
How culture improve nature?
Questions
Introduction
City as a text (a system of signification)
different people, different interpretation
reciprocal interaction different personalities
“the city is a discourse, and this discourse is actually a language: the city speaks to its inhabitants, we speak to our city, the city where we are, simply by inhabiting it, by traversing it, by looking at it.” (Barthes 415)
Introduction
City as a form of life
Physical location and psychic life
“The city exists only in the totality of the effects which transcend their immediate sphere...Its essential characteristic is to be found that the particularity and incomparability which ultimately every person possesses is actually expressed, giving form to life” (Simmel 335)
Confrontation between subjective self and objective forces
The modern city: changing rapidly, money-orientated
excessive stimulation
alienation, intellectual without heart
reduction of quality to quantity
Pressures, social constraints suppress personal elements
defensive responses to survive (Simmel 329)
-indifference
“it stimulates the nerves to their utmost reactivity until they can no longer produce any reaction” (Simmel 329)
-distrust ( fragile and shallow interpersonal relationship)
“self-preservation at the expense of the devaluation of the objective world” (Simmel 330)
What is Madness?
BUT, city is a form of life which give rise to different personalities.
How about those who fight for individual self /unable to defend themselves from stimuli?
When one does protects the personal self, he is hailed as Extremities or Peculiarities. (Ackbar Abbas 303)
the Madness of the city
e.g. the girl in “A Girl Like Me”, who fails to protect herself (like not telling lies), is mocked by others.
How do you interpret madness?
What is madness? What is normal?
“Madness” is a general popular term defining behavior influenced by mental disability (Wikipedia)
- ‘not normal’
medical definition: now replaced by specific diagnoses such as schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
“Normal” - behaviors that fall inside of what objectively called appropriate and suitable to society; behavior that the majority of people engage in
Madness vs Normal : a continuum, not clear-cut as in
sane vs. not crazy
Reference: www.brainconnection.com/topics/?main:fa/mental-movies#A1
Gendered madness? Yes … No?
No. Medical findings support that while women are more prone to certain types of mental disorders such as depression, men are more prone to others such as antisocial behavior.
Yes.
Cultural/ Women’s studies: women’s mental illnesses as result of patriarchal ideologies and oppression of women, role expectations” contributes to mental illnesses in women in the 21st century
-- World Health Organization: gender determines the differential power and control men and women have over the socioeconomic determinants of their mental health and lives, their social position, status and treatment in society and their susceptibility and exposure to specific mental health risks;
Gender specific risk factors for common mental disorders that disproportionately affect women include gender based violence, socioeconomic disadvantage, low income and income inequality, low or subordinate social status and rank and unremitting responsibility for the care of others.
-- All in all these than half of those who meet diagnostic criteria for psychological disorders are identified by doctors
-- overrepresentation of women with depression leads to higher diagnoses rates in women than in men
-- Gunter (1986) argues that sex trait stereotypes women as more emotional, in association in reference to the neuroticism commonly associated with women and femininity
Madness in Movies
Both sexes are portrayed in films with mental illnesses;
Observation:
Male protagonists with mental illnesses often possess special skills, talents, such as the mathematical genius in A Beautiful Mind (2002)
Female protagonist’s illnesses are more blamed on the “femininity trait” of being emotional and irrational, and with no function whatsoever
Gunter, B.(1986):Television and Sex Role Stereotyping. London: John Libbey
Characters reflect the strains of city life; pressures of modern society;
Madness occurs when the confrontation between the subjective self and objective forces cannot compromise;
Movies as an attempt to recognize, to endure, to create space within the inferno (Calvino, p165)
Vigilance: to recognize, to endure, to create space within the inferno
Using culture to improve nature by
Arousing compassion of audiences towards some social issues that may easily be overlooked or ignored (due to indifference)
A chance to allow self reflection of self, and for both producers and audience alike to actively react to socioeconomic forces (the imperfect world)
Simmel (338): To maintain one’s qualitative uniqueness and irreplacability, “extremities and peculiarities and indivualizations must be produced and they must be exaggerated merely to be brought into the awareness even of the individual”
References:
Gunter,B. (1986): Television and Sex Role stereotyping. London: John Libbey
Simmel, G. Metropolis and Mental Life
World Health Organization http://www/who.int/mental_health/prevention/genderwomen/en/
Gabriel, Gerald. Mental Illness at the Movies http://www.brainconnection.com/topics/?main=fa/mental-movies
Women’s Issues Then & Now http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~ulrich/femhist/madness.shtml
Portrayal of Women and Elderly Patients in Psychotropic Drug Advertisements http://www.haworthpress.com/store/articleabstract.asp?sid=H8XBLBFD9QTV9H889RUWAF2UU67WBDE3&ID=1554
The Portrayal of Women on Television http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/students/hzi9401.html
Discussion:
Any examples of cultural texts (music, films, books etc) that portrays madness?
And how do they improve nature?
Introduction
What is madness?
A gendered madness?
How culture improve nature?
Questions
Introduction
City as a text (a system of signification)
different people, different interpretation
reciprocal interaction different personalities
“the city is a discourse, and this discourse is actually a language: the city speaks to its inhabitants, we speak to our city, the city where we are, simply by inhabiting it, by traversing it, by looking at it.” (Barthes 415)
Introduction
City as a form of life
Physical location and psychic life
“The city exists only in the totality of the effects which transcend their immediate sphere...Its essential characteristic is to be found that the particularity and incomparability which ultimately every person possesses is actually expressed, giving form to life” (Simmel 335)
Confrontation between subjective self and objective forces
The modern city: changing rapidly, money-orientated
excessive stimulation
alienation, intellectual without heart
reduction of quality to quantity
Pressures, social constraints suppress personal elements
defensive responses to survive (Simmel 329)
-indifference
“it stimulates the nerves to their utmost reactivity until they can no longer produce any reaction” (Simmel 329)
-distrust ( fragile and shallow interpersonal relationship)
“self-preservation at the expense of the devaluation of the objective world” (Simmel 330)
What is Madness?
BUT, city is a form of life which give rise to different personalities.
How about those who fight for individual self /unable to defend themselves from stimuli?
When one does protects the personal self, he is hailed as Extremities or Peculiarities. (Ackbar Abbas 303)
the Madness of the city
e.g. the girl in “A Girl Like Me”, who fails to protect herself (like not telling lies), is mocked by others.
How do you interpret madness?
What is madness? What is normal?
“Madness” is a general popular term defining behavior influenced by mental disability (Wikipedia)
- ‘not normal’
medical definition: now replaced by specific diagnoses such as schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
“Normal” - behaviors that fall inside of what objectively called appropriate and suitable to society; behavior that the majority of people engage in
Madness vs Normal : a continuum, not clear-cut as in
sane vs. not crazy
Reference: www.brainconnection.com/topics/?main:fa/mental-movies#A1
Gendered madness? Yes … No?
No. Medical findings support that while women are more prone to certain types of mental disorders such as depression, men are more prone to others such as antisocial behavior.
Yes.
Cultural/ Women’s studies: women’s mental illnesses as result of patriarchal ideologies and oppression of women, role expectations” contributes to mental illnesses in women in the 21st century
-- World Health Organization: gender determines the differential power and control men and women have over the socioeconomic determinants of their mental health and lives, their social position, status and treatment in society and their susceptibility and exposure to specific mental health risks;
Gender specific risk factors for common mental disorders that disproportionately affect women include gender based violence, socioeconomic disadvantage, low income and income inequality, low or subordinate social status and rank and unremitting responsibility for the care of others.
-- All in all these than half of those who meet diagnostic criteria for psychological disorders are identified by doctors
-- overrepresentation of women with depression leads to higher diagnoses rates in women than in men
-- Gunter (1986) argues that sex trait stereotypes women as more emotional, in association in reference to the neuroticism commonly associated with women and femininity
Madness in Movies
Both sexes are portrayed in films with mental illnesses;
Observation:
Male protagonists with mental illnesses often possess special skills, talents, such as the mathematical genius in A Beautiful Mind (2002)
Female protagonist’s illnesses are more blamed on the “femininity trait” of being emotional and irrational, and with no function whatsoever
Gunter, B.(1986):Television and Sex Role Stereotyping. London: John Libbey
Characters reflect the strains of city life; pressures of modern society;
Madness occurs when the confrontation between the subjective self and objective forces cannot compromise;
Movies as an attempt to recognize, to endure, to create space within the inferno (Calvino, p165)
Vigilance: to recognize, to endure, to create space within the inferno
Using culture to improve nature by
Arousing compassion of audiences towards some social issues that may easily be overlooked or ignored (due to indifference)
A chance to allow self reflection of self, and for both producers and audience alike to actively react to socioeconomic forces (the imperfect world)
Simmel (338): To maintain one’s qualitative uniqueness and irreplacability, “extremities and peculiarities and indivualizations must be produced and they must be exaggerated merely to be brought into the awareness even of the individual”
References:
Gunter,B. (1986): Television and Sex Role stereotyping. London: John Libbey
Simmel, G. Metropolis and Mental Life
World Health Organization http://www/who.int/mental_health/prevention/genderwomen/en/
Gabriel, Gerald. Mental Illness at the Movies http://www.brainconnection.com/topics/?main=fa/mental-movies
Women’s Issues Then & Now http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~ulrich/femhist/madness.shtml
Portrayal of Women and Elderly Patients in Psychotropic Drug Advertisements http://www.haworthpress.com/store/articleabstract.asp?sid=H8XBLBFD9QTV9H889RUWAF2UU67WBDE3&ID=1554
The Portrayal of Women on Television http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/students/hzi9401.html
Discussion:
Any examples of cultural texts (music, films, books etc) that portrays madness?
And how do they improve nature?
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