Demons of the Mind

In the 1960s, psychiatrists and psychologists intervened in and influenced cinema culture in unprecedented ways, changing how films were conceived, produced, censored, exhibited and received by audiences. Demons of the Mind provides the first interdisciplinary account of these complex contestations and cross-pollinations of the 'psy' sciences and cinema in Britain and America during the defining long 1960s period of the late-1950s to early-1970s. This book incorporates expertise from film studies, history of science and medicine, and science communication, focusing particularly on the situated practices and interplay between ideas, expertise and professionals that constitute the fields of mental health and media. Tim Snelson is an Associate Professor in Media History at the University of East Anglia. William R. Macauley is a Lecturer at the University of Manchester and Senior Research Associate at the Science Museum, London. David A. Kirby is Chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Liberal Arts and Professor in Science and Technology Studies at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.