Implacable images: Why epileptiform events continue to be featured in film and television

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 103-113

  Kerson, Toba Schwaber ^a   Kerson, Lawrence A ^b  

^a BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Art; Cinema; Epilepsy; Film; Seizures; Television

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ART; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; DRUG USE; EPILEPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; TELEVISION; VIDEORECORDING;

ATTITUDE; EMOTIONS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PICTURES; NARRATION; PERSONALITY; SEIZURES; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; TELEVISION;

EID: 33745751850     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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