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Kate Novack is an Emmy-nominated producer and director of documentaries. Her short film Hysterical Girl (New York Times Op Docs, Grasshopper Film), which she wrote and directed, was shortlisted for an Academy Award and nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing and for Best Short by the International Documentary Association.
Sigmund Freud produced only one major case history of a female patient, a teenaged sexual assault victim. “Hysterical Girl” uses a feminist lens to imagine her as a girl today. In the film, "Dora" (the name Freud used to protect his patient's identity) tells her version of events, alongside Freud’s official account.
Feb 16, 2021 · Richard Brody reviews Kate Novack’s documentary short “Hysterical Girl,” which stars Tommy Vines as the subject of one of Sigmund Freud’s most famous case studies.
Oct 17, 2020 · Hysterical Girl: Directed by Kate Novack. With Brian Kelly, Tommy Vines. Sigmund Freud's sole case study of a female patient is re-examined from a modern feminist perspective.
Kate Novack is an Emmy-nominated writer, director and producer of documentary films. Her most recent film, Hysterical Girl (New York Times Op-Docs, Grasshopper Film, 2020), revisits the only major case history that Sigmund Freud produced of a female patient, and considers the corrosive legacy of his theory of hysteria, 125 years later.
KATE NOVACK is an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker. Her most recent film Hysterical Girl (New York Times Op-Docs/Grasshopper Film) revisits the only major case history that Sigmund Freud produced of a female patient.
Feb 23, 2021 · The film directed by Kate Novack not only elucidates one of Sigmund Freud’s most famous case histories—on a suicidal teenage girl the psychoanalyst called “Dora”—but how Freud’s writing about her...
