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Cinematic Representations of Madness

Film is an emotionally charged art form which has the power to influence viewers’ emotions. Since madness is a product of the human psyche, the interest of the audience in this particular topic spiked a great deal of cinematic representations of madness. Ever since The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919), the film industry has grown accustomed to representing madness as something less than human and the madman as someone who is violent, murderous and bestial. The images of madness analysed in this thesis derive from films by some of the most influential directors of all times ; Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), Roman Polanski’s Repulsion (1965) and Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980) revealed that although those characters are meant to be viewed as the other, they are different from the average viewer only by their stereotypical representation, and not by nature.

madness, cinema, violence, stereotypes, representation

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