Suicide Movies - Social Patterns 1900-2009

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Part I: Introduction

Chapter 1: The Neglect of Social Patterns in Suicide

Chapter 2: Finding and Categorizing the Suicide Movies

Part II: Individual Causes of Suicide in the Cinema

Chapter 3: Traditional Psychiatric Motives for Suicide in Film

Chapter 4: The Psychopath and Suicide: A Nontraditional Psychiatric Factor

Chapter 5: Physicality: Pain, Physical Illness, & Disability in FilmSuicides

Part III: The Social Causes of Suicide in the Cinema

Chapter 6: Death of a Significant Other

Chapter 7: Strain in Social Relationships: Relationship Breakdown

Chapter 8: Economic Strain and Suicide in the Cinema

Chapter 9: Altruistic Suicide

Part IV: Cross-National Analysis and Conclusion

Chapter 10: Globalization and the Causes of Suicide: Comparing British to American Films

Chapter 11: Conclusions

References

Subject Index

Film Index