Dear Acquisition Librarians,
Crooked Beauty is the multi-award-winning documentary that explores the
psychosocial and personal aspects of mental distress, the role of extreme
emotional states in imagination and creativity, and the debate over medication
and treatment. It is a provocative and intimate first-person account of mental
health struggles that until now has been missing from the media.
Crooked Beauty is appropriate for these areas of study:• Psychology and
Psychiatry• Social and Clinical Psychology• Mood Disorders • Social Work•
Art Therapy and Counseling• Women’s Studies and Social Justice
Crooked Beauty is also:• Unique in its re-framing of madness as a tool of
insight and integration.
• A 30-minute film featured at 21 academic conferences, screened at 35 film
festivals internationally, presented at more than 40 consumer recovery centers
and community events throughout North America and Europe.
• A winner of 16 awards to date, including: a Voice Award by the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administrations (SAMHSA), and an Award of
Merit from the University Film and Video Association (UFVA). Over 130
educational institutions have acquired Crooked Beauty.
• Subtitled and close-captioned for the hearing impaired.
“Crooked Beauty is a groundbreaking documentary that offers new language for
how we conceptualize and discuss the culture, power and politics of
psychological suffering. “- Heather Macdonald, Psy.D., Assistant Professor of
Psychology, Lesley University
“A unique window through which to deepen our understanding of bipolar disorder
and an excellent catalyst for dialogue amongst students in a variety of health
disciplines.” - Erin Michalak, PhD, Department of Psychiatry,
University of British Columbia
“A deeply humane, must-see experience for anyone entrusted to provide mental
health care to other people and all who care about relieving mental anguish and
distress.” - Joe Behen, PhD, Director Counseling, Health & Disability Services,
School of Art Institute of Chicago
“Mesmerizing...a work of art with the transformative powers of a great poem.”-
Robert Whitaker, author of Anatomy of an Epidemic and Mad in America
DVD purchases with Institutional screening rights:
www.crookedbeautythefilm.comSincerely, Ken Paul RosenthalDirector, Crooked
beautykenpaulrosent...@hotmail.comwww.crookedbeautythefilm.com
VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues
relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control,
preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and
related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective
working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication
between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and
distributors.
