Madness, Power and the Media

Class, Gender and Race in Popular Representations of Mental Distress

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

Questioning the psychiatric construction of mental distress as 'illness', and challenging existing studies of media stigmatization, Stephen Harper argues that today's media images of mental distress are often sympathetic, yet tend to reproduce the sexist, classist, racist and individualist ideologies of contemporary capitalism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-07-30
Mått:140 x 216 x 20 mm
Vikt:431 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:238
Upplaga:2009
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9780230218802

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STEPHEN HARPER is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements Framing Madness: Historical and Cultural Debates Stigmatisation, Violence and Media Criticism The Suffering Screen: Cinematic Portrayals of Mental Distress Channelling Affliction: Television Discourses of Distress A New Leaf?: Changing Representations of Mental Distress in Print Media Conclusion: Media, Madness and Ideology in Capitalist Society Notes Bibliography Index