Non-medical books and movies about alopecia

Dear Members,

I am interested in books and movies (documentaries) that present/describe/explain individual experience with alopecia and coping, It can be helpful to compose a sort of bibliography, i believe. SO far I found 2 books and one movie. I would really appreciate other suggestions from you. Thanks in advance!

Here are those:
1. Jody Pliszka "Bald is beautiful."
2. LeslieAnn Butler If Your Hair Falls Out, Keep Dancing
3. Christina Hörlund Importance of hair /(Vikten av)hår/, movie

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Permalink Reply by Marinetta on July 20, 2012 at 7:19am

Hi Silk where can i find Importance of hair, I've been looking like a madman? It showed on svt or something like that but they have removed it from their site. I really like your idea with a bibliografy btw. There is a movie but its fiction, can't remember the name but its starring Malin Åkerman as a woman with alopecia. ohh do a search on adlibris.se just type alopecia and you get a lot

Permalink Reply by Tallgirl on July 20, 2012 at 7:41am

Go to www.Amazon.com and put in Alopecia as part of a book title. You will see a list of other books suggested or considered by buyers of any book, with reviews available for each. Most are for children.

Permalink Reply by Silk on July 20, 2012 at 10:33am

Hi Marinetta, thanks for your reply. I bought Importance of hair on CD from Folkets bio, it seems to be the only possibility to get it now. Do you mean Happythankyoumoreplease (2010)? Is it a comedy ? would be interesting to see.

Thanks for your suggestion, Tallgirl. The amazon search actually provoked this post. The majority of books are medical staff, general beauty advises and commercial publications. I will take an additional look at children's books.

Permalink Reply by Marinetta on July 20, 2012 at 11:01am
Thanks Silk, I'll look into it!
Permalink Reply by Marinetta on July 23, 2012 at 4:21am

I checked out Folkets bio's webpage and couldn't find it, so I've sent them an email. hopefully they'll get back to me. yes Happythankyoumoreplease (Kärlek i New York, weird translation. sometimes I wonder how they "translate" titles) is the one I mean. I havn't seen it but I would like to.

Permalink Reply by Silk on July 23, 2012 at 8:39am

Hi Marinetta, yes, i recall now it took some time to find the movie. It 2010 (i believe) Vol.4. together with several other short films. Hope this may help. Too bad they didn't provide english subtitles.
Yes, Kärlik i NY I would like to see as well. It is said to be a comedy, very interesting

Permalink Reply by Marinetta on July 23, 2012 at 8:52am

No english subtitles.. that's too bad. I saw a clip from it and it seemed to be a nice piece. To bad we can't share it with our english speaking friends. Arn't there programs for adding subtitles to movie clips?

Permalink Reply by Alliegator on July 23, 2012 at 11:47am

Happythankyoumoreplease is a cute movie especially since one of the main characters has Alopecia. I wrote a short review of it on my blog on here, but it might contain spoilers.

Permalink Reply by Silk on July 26, 2012 at 8:31am

Hi Alliegator, I would love to read your review, could you direct me to your blog, pls?

Permalink Reply by Alliegator on July 30, 2012 at 10:43am
Permalink Reply by Marinetta on July 26, 2012 at 5:20am

Vikten av (hår), Importance of hair airs today at 17:40 on svt1 and probably on svtplay after that. I don't think there is subtitles though, otherwise anyone on AW could whatch it on svtplay.se (http://www.svtplay.se/kortfilm-i-svt)

Permalink Reply by Silk on July 28, 2012 at 8:53am

Thanks for info, Marinetta

How (The importance of) Hair it is available on

http://www.svtplay.se/video/200623/-vikten-av-har

There is no English subtitles, unfortunately, and my Swedish is not good enough for the proper translation, but images are self-evident, i believe. The woman's name is Christina Höglund, she is an artist herself who films experience of alopecia areata. In brief, she is talking about her frustration, fears, emotional difficulties and pragmatic coping strategies during hair loss journey, such as that husband will leave her, that son does not recognize her after change, her preoccupation with hair, etc. It is also shown that coping is a process, rather than an achievable condition. Thus, after shaving her head, Christina says that she determined her new appearance as a specific style and felt good and empowered going bald in public. Later, however, when her eyelashes fall of, the whole image has become altered and this mental construct did no longer work for her.

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