Review\n‘The Rapids takes the reader by the hand and lays out the realities of mania, up close and personal – what it's like to wrestle with and how the brain navigates its swiftly tilting universe.’ -- Anna Mehler Paperny, author of Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person\n‘As with all great first-person works on mental health, Twyford-Moore’s The Rapids generously weaves his experience of mania through his critical scholarship without purporting to offer any sort of final, clinical clarity. Twyford-Moore’s work – at once critical, personal, and historical – thrusts our misconceptions of mania against the rocks, casting both light and shadow: revealing shapes where there was once mystery, and placing mystery back where shapes once stood.’ -- John Elizabeth Stintzi, author of Vanishing Monuments and Junebat\n’The Rapids is a beautiful narration of the beauty and heartache inherent in madness. A humorous and considerate self-reflection on the way our private worlds are inextricably informed and vulnerable to culture, art and music. A personal account and generous contribution to the expanding experiential and scholarly work of Mad studies.’ -- Lucy Costa, Deputy Executive Director of The Empowerment Council, an independent service user rights-based organization in Toronto, Canada, and co-editor of Madness, Violence, and Power: A Critical Collection\n‘An important work, The Rapids is about what it means to write and represent madness across media, such as film and literary critique, and how we come to know ourselves through these media, and how they in turn come to inform our understandings of our own experiences of madness, both in constrictive and constructive ways.’ -- Jijian Voronka, School of Social Work, University of Windsor\nThe Rapids is an exploration of manic depression (also known as bipolar disorder). With reflections on artists such as Carrie Fisher, Kanye West, Saul Bellow, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Spalding Gray, Sam Twyford-Moore takes readers on a literary and cultural tour of mania and what it means to live with a diagnosis of "bipolarity" in contemporary society. He also looks at the condition in our digital world, where someone’s manic episode can unfold live in real time, watched by millions. 
His own story, told unflinchingly, is shocking and sometimes darkly comic. It gives the book an edge that is not always comfortable but full of insight and empathy. Smart, lively, and well-researched, The Rapids manages to be both a wild ride and introspective at once, exploring a condition that touches thousands of people, directly or indirectly.

The Rapids: Ways of Looking at Mania

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Twyford-Moore, Sam

Mental Health

Aevo UTP

<div>Writing and mental illness make excellent bedfellows, for better or worse. The Rapids&nbsp;is an extraordinary personal memoir peppered with film and literary criticism, as well as family history. With reflections on artists such as Carrie Fisher, Kanye West, Robert Lowell, Delmore Schwartz, Paul Thomas Anderson,&nbsp;and Spalding Gray, Twyford-Moore also looks at the condition in our digital world, where someone's manic episode can unfold live in real time, watched by millions. His own story, told unflinchingly, is shocking and sometimes blackly comic. It gives the book an edge that is not always comfortable but full of insight and empathy. The Rapids manages to be both a wild ride and introspective at once, exploring a condition that touches thousands of people, directly or indirectly.</div>

The Rapids: Ways of looking at mania

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

University of New South Wales Press

Cast Mates is a group biography of Australian acting giants across the ages. Australia has a long cinema history - starting with the world' s first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, made in Melbourne and released in 1906. Today, much of Australia' s film talent goes to the United States, looking for bigger and more lucrative opportunities overseas. But what does this mean for Australian film industry? The larger-than-life personalities that form the heart of book ¬ ¬ - Errol Flynn, Peter Finch, David Dhalatnghu Gulpilil, and Nicole Kidman ¬ - have dominated cinema screens both locally and internationally, and star in some of the biggest films of their eras - from The Adventures of Robin Hood, Network to Crocodile Dundee and Eyes Wide Shut among others. From the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1930s, until the streaming wars and Marvel domination of screens today, the lives of these four actors, and their many cast mates, tell a story about the progress of cinema, as well as the future of homegrown stars since the advent of sound.

Cast Mates: Australian Actors in Hollywood and at Home

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

NewSouth

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