Melancholy, between Medical Science and Cinematography
Melancholy, between Medical Science and Cinematography
Author(s): Lucia LupeaSubject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Scientific Life, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Facultatea de Teatru si Televiziune
Keywords: history of melancholy; melancholic traits in cinema; depression; feminine melancholy;
Summary/Abstract: This text examines the history of melancholy starting from Ancient Greece with Hippocrates’s Humorism and going up to its current form, namely an isolated subspecies of clinical depression, the term being almost redundant today. Besides, it showcases several examples of melancholic traits in cinema. On another level this work takes a look at how and why the semantics of melancholy veered towards depression in the twentieth century. Feminine melancholy will be a recurring theme throughout this whole text, with a highlight on women’s place in every narrative on melancholy that I will analyse.
Journal: Ekphrasis. Images, Cinema, Theory, Media
- Issue Year: 21/2019
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 93-108
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English