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mental illness

Silver Linings Playbook: Class themes in Oscar nominees #3

February 23, 2013 by Julie Withers 1 Comment

Movies about mental illness are a favorite of the Oscars. The nominees are often serious affairs with sad endings and a key point: it sucks to have a mental illness. Underlying that key point is the idea that having a mental illness creates an outsider status of not being normal where one lacks access to […]

Filed Under: Class cultures, Class Themes in Film and Fiction, Classism in Everyday Life Tagged With: downward mobility, mental illness

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