mental illness Archives - cléo https://cleojournal.com/tag/mental-illness/ a journal of film and feminism Fri, 31 Mar 2023 15:39:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 Feminist Anti-Psychiatry: The Other Side of Underneath https://cleojournal.com/2019/08/23/feminist-anti-psychiatry-the-other-side-of-underneath/ https://cleojournal.com/2019/08/23/feminist-anti-psychiatry-the-other-side-of-underneath/#respond Fri, 23 Aug 2019 13:41:02 +0000 https://cleojournal.com/?p=4259 Made in 1972, Jane Arden’s The Other Side of Underneath was the only British film of the decade to be solo-directed by a woman. A boldly feminist film in its engagement with, and rejection of, the contemporary place of women in British society, the film is also unique for its take on mental illness. Arden’s […]

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]]> https://cleojournal.com/2019/08/23/feminist-anti-psychiatry-the-other-side-of-underneath/feed/ 0 The F(ill)maker: On Making Movies While Chronically Ill https://cleojournal.com/2019/08/23/on-making-movies-while-chronically-ill/ https://cleojournal.com/2019/08/23/on-making-movies-while-chronically-ill/#respond Fri, 23 Aug 2019 13:36:52 +0000 https://cleojournal.com/?p=4267 It dawned on me before sitting down to write this piece that maybe I am not at all qualified to write about disability, illness and filmmaking, as I haven’t been paying very close attention to the community of disabled or chronically ill filmmakers. In order to rectify this situation, or at least to take a […]

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