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Demons of the Mind film series 2017
March-June 2017, for details of specific events see here.
Find out more »Psycho: shaping mental health narratives?
Film screening of Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock,1961) and panel discussion with Dr Tim Snelson, Dr Sarah Garfinkel, and Dr Adam Rutherford.
Find out more »Hallowed Histories: ‘The Shuttered Room’
As part of the Hallowed Histories festival, there will be a screening of the 1967 film The Shuttered Room, an adaptation of a story by H. P. Lovecraft starring Carol Lynley, Oliver Reed and Gig Young. The film was partly filmed on location in Norfolk and involved the controversial burning of the historic Hardingham Mill. Archive footage of the stars on location in Hardingham and in Norwich which is unseen for 50 years will also be screened. This screening will be followed by…
Find out more »Repulsion (Philosophers at the Cinema)
In REPULSION, Roman Polanski's first English-language feature, Catherine Deneuve plays a Belgian girl whose mind and emotions crack under the pressure of nightmares and fantasies when she's left alone in a Kensington bedsit. One of the most unsettling horror films ever made, with complex visual and aural textures that anticipate the films of David Lynch, evoking the subjective terrors of a mind off balance and the frightening alienation of urban isolation. The Belgian girl's breakdown culminates in murder. Polanski's cold…
Find out more »Family Life (1971) screening and panel discussion
Come along to a free screening and discussion of the Ken Loach film Family Life (1971) at Cinema City during Mental Health Awareness Week. The film screening is being delivered as part of a trailblazing UEA-led research project Demons of the Mind exploring the interactions between cinema and the psy sciences – psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis – during the late 1950s to mid-1970s. Director Loach, producer Tony Garnett and writer David Mercer made Family Life in consultation with and based on the innovative research and…
Find out more »The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
Come along to a free screening and discussion of The Three Faces of Eve (1957) at Cinema City during Mental Health Awareness Week. The film screening is being delivered as part of a trailblazing UEA-led research project Demons of the Mind exploring the interactions between cinema and the psy sciences – psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis – during the late 1950s to mid-1970s. The Hollywood melodrama The Three Faces of Eve was based on a best-selling book by two American psychiatrists who worked with a…
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