Um debate emancipatório em saúde mental: uma análise da histeria em Don’t look up

This paper aims to analyze the meanings attributed to female hysteria associated with the character Kate Dibiasky in the 2021 film Don’t look up. Offering possible materiality to engage more fully an emancipatory debate on mental health, the film offers a critique of power relations and gender stere...

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Main Author: Camila Fortes Monte Franklin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra 2025-05-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/eces/9671
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description This paper aims to analyze the meanings attributed to female hysteria associated with the character Kate Dibiasky in the 2021 film Don’t look up. Offering possible materiality to engage more fully an emancipatory debate on mental health, the film offers a critique of power relations and gender stereotypes, especially in a context of scientific denialism. Using Narratology as a theoretical-methodological guide, the research seeks to point out the critical nuances that reinforce the profile of female hysteria through a satirical plot set in an ‘end of the world’ scenario. Although the film is not built on a debate aimed at mental health, an analysis of the film points to the existence of a dissident narrative about hysteria, becoming an invitation to rethink hegemonic psychiatric models in addition to broadening therapeutic validity.
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title Um debate emancipatório em saúde mental: uma análise da histeria em Don’t look up
title_full Um debate emancipatório em saúde mental: uma análise da histeria em Don’t look up
title_fullStr Um debate emancipatório em saúde mental: uma análise da histeria em Don’t look up
title_full_unstemmed Um debate emancipatório em saúde mental: uma análise da histeria em Don’t look up
title_short Um debate emancipatório em saúde mental: uma análise da histeria em Don’t look up
title_sort um debate emancipatorio em saude mental uma analise da histeria em don t look up
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mental health
cinematography
hysteria
narratology
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