“Seeing Puss in Boots, a character defined by his fearlessness and lust for life, run scared when faced with the realities of the world reminds us that we’re not alone in these existential frights.”
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It’s Kind of a Funny (New Year’s Eve) Story
The current iteration of our traditional New Year’s Eve party was conceived exactly a decade ago, on the precipice of 2013 (a good year, for what it’s worth, and my fifteenth year overall). Though the guest list has shifted slightly over the years, a few elements have remained a consistent theme: We have Martinelli’s sparkling…
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Girls Will Be Anything But Themselves: An Exploration of Teenage Girls on Film
Exploring the identity crisis trope of teenage girls on film.
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How Representation Helped Rescue My Mental Health
A personal look at how on screen representation can be life-changing.
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‘Melancholia’ (2011) and How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Planet
How Lars Von Trier portrays mental illness as a superpower in Melancholia.
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MHAM: ‘We All Have Powers’: Grief and Trauma in the Spider-Man Films
When the character of Peter Parker and his superhero persona Spider-Man was created by comic book writers and artists Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in the early 1960s, they were excited about the concept of a superhero who wasn’t completely invincible.
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MHAM: ‘Maniac’ (2019) Presents a Down-to-Earth Depiction of Borderline Personality Disorder in an Otherwise Outlandish World
There is something overwhelmingly lonely about suffering from a condition that is so misunderstood, so feared and so shrouded in stigma that you could go your whole life without seeing it depicted accurately on TV.
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MHAM: How ‘Doom Patrol’ Deconstructs Superhero Tropes to Explore Mental Illness
To say that Doom Patrol is a very weird show would be an understatement. Since its debut on DC Universe last year, the show has given us some of the strangest and most bizarre moments ever seen in the history of TV. There’s a talking giant cockroach named Ezekiel who can predict the end of…
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MHAM: Another Side of Daniel Craig
He starred in numerous explorations of complex characters, bringing light to different mental health issues in a way significant enough to influence my own wellbeing.
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MHAM: A World of Unsane Women – A Look Into ‘Unsane’ (2018)
Einstein once stated that the definition of insanity – or unsanity for the sake of the film’s title – was the act of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
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