Madness, power and the media: class, gender and race in popular representations of mental distress
Harper, Stephen
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Questioning the psychiatric construction of mental distress as 'illness', andchallenging existing studies of media stigmatization, Stephen Harper argues that today's media images of mental distress are often sympathetic, yet tend toreproduce the sexist, classist, racist and individualist ideologies of contemporary capitalism. INDICE: 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 inPrint Media - Conclusion: Media, Madness and Ideology in Capitalist Society -Notes - Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-21880-2
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 248
- Fecha Publicación: 30/07/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés