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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments
7
Preface
8
Part I: Introduction
12
Chapter 1: The Neglect of Social Patterns in Suicide
14
Chapter 2: Finding and Categorizing the Suicide Movies
24
Part II: Individual Causes of Suicide in the Cinema
40
Chapter 3: Traditional Psychiatric Motives for Suicide in Film
42
Chapter 4: The Psychopath and Suicide: A Nontraditional Psychiatric Factor
68
Chapter 5: Physicality: Pain, Physical Illness, & Disability in FilmSuicides
90
Part III: The Social Causes of Suicide in the Cinema
114
Chapter 6: Death of a Significant Other
116
Chapter 7: Strain in Social Relationships: Relationship Breakdown
142
Chapter 8: Economic Strain and Suicide in the Cinema
182
Chapter 9: Altruistic Suicide
208
Part IV: Cross-National Analysis and Conclusion
236
Chapter 10: Globalization and the Causes of Suicide: Comparing British to American Films
238
Chapter 11: Conclusions
260
References
288
Subject Index
296
Film Index
304
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