Category Archive for: ‘Issue 43 – First Release’

Introduction Not five minutes into to Baby Face (Alfred E. Green, 1933), the most notorious and scandalous picture produced by Warner Bros in the pre-Code era, Lily Powers (Barbara Stanwyck) is posed at the window of her father’s speakeasy, the camera capturing her watering the plants through the open window. Soon a man appears – he’s clearly a drunken lout …

Since Hegel, architecture has been understood in dialectical conjunction with its human antipode, the illusive world spirit. Here the philosopher speculates with reference to Ancient Egypt: “whole nations have been able to express their religion and their deepest needs no otherwise than by building, or at least in the main in some constructional way.” [1] The pyramids and the sphinx …

For more than a century, psychiatrists have had to live with the cultural consequences of how their profession has been depicted in the movies. According to Irving Schneider’s influential taxonomy, psychiatrists have been represented cinematically as “Dr. Dippy”, “Dr. Evil” or “Dr. Wonderful”. [1] In Psychiatry and the Cinema, Glen O. Gabbard and Krin Gabbard identify a brief moment in the …