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From Cinema to the Classroom: A Critical Engagement with Madness in the Movies

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This chapter presents reflections and experiences of our involvement in an annual film festival hosted by the Comensus (service-user and carer-led) initiative at UCLan (McKeown et al., 2012). Here we discuss successes and failures in realising the goals of the film festival including the extent to which we have made links into the classroom and the techniques we have deployed to support this. We introduce the emerging field of ‘Mad Studies’ as a set of radical ideas that have both directly impacted upon the film festival, but also as a critical lens through which we might make sense of some of the tensions and complications surrounding the festival, and as a body of knowledge of relevance to student mental health practitioners and their learning.

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The Comensus Writing Collective. (2015). From Cinema to the Classroom: A Critical Engagement with Madness in the Movies. In: Brewer, G., Hogarth, R. (eds) Creative Education, Teaching and Learning. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137402141_4

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