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Theatremakers in the United States have long been drawn to madness as a source of dramatic spectacle. This book offers a dynamic account of stage musicals’ engagement with historically significant theories about mental distress, illness, disability, and human variance in the United States.

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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    Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
    Publication Date: 05/10/2023
    ISBN13: 9780472056446, 978-0472056446
    ISBN10: 0472056441
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    Music of film and stage Theatre studies Psychology

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Theatremakers in the United States have long been drawn to madness as a source of dramatic spectacle. This book offers a dynamic account of stage musicals’ engagement with historically significant theories about mental distress, illness, disability, and human variance in the United States.

    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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