Nightmare Factories: The Asylum in the American Imagination
- ISBN-10
- 1421432676
- ISBN-13
- 9781421432670
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 344
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-09-24
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Author
- Troy Rondinone
Description
Drawing from fictional and real accounts, movies, personal interviews, and tours of mental hospitals both active and defunct, Rondinone uncovers a story at once familiar and bizarre, where reality meets fantasy in the foggy landscape of celluloid and pulp.
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