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2005 | Home > Events > Exhibitions > 2005 > Film Series - 'Psychosis at the Cinema: Shock Corridor' |
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Film Series - 'Psychosis at the Cinema: Shock Corridor' Date: 10/25/2005; 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM Location: Osterman Common Room, 0520 Rackham, 915 E Washington St, Ann Arbor Host Department: Institute for the Humanities October 25, Shock Corridor (1963) Directed by Samuel Fuller. Starring Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans, and Neyle Morrow as Psycho Detailed Information Johnny Barrett, an ambitious journalist, is determined to win a Pulitzer Prize by solving a murder committed in a lunatic asylum and witnessed only by three inmates, from whom the police have been unable to extract the information. With the connivance of a psychiatrist, and the reluctant help of his girlfriend, he succeeds in having himself declared insane and sent to the asylum. There he slowly tracks down and interviews the witnesses - but things are stranger than they seem ... Moderated by Jonathan Metzl, Psychosis at the Cinema is a film series that looks at Hollywood representations of insanity in order to understand American cultural anxieties about race, gender, and class. Classic films about madness from three distinct time periods--the 1940s (The Snake Pit (1948)), 1960s Shock Corridor (1963), and 2000s A Beautiful Mind (2001)--provide jumping off points for larger conversations about American society. This film series is presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Art What? Art Brut!" Contact Information Doretha Coval dcoval@umich.edu 734 936 3518 |
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