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Madness, Power and the Media: Class, Gender and Race in Popular Representations of Mental Distress (PDF eBook)


Madness, Power and the Media: Class, Gender and Race in Popular Representations of Mental Distress (PDF eBook)

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Madness, Power and the Media: Class, Gender and Race in Popular Representations of Mental Distress (PDF eBook)

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ISBN:
9780230249509
Publication Date:
30 Jul 2009
Publisher:
Springer Nature
Imprint:
Palgrave Macmillan
Pages:
238 pages
Format:
eBook
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Madness, Power and the Media: Class, Gender and Race in Popular Representations of Mental Distress (PDF eBook)

Description

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

Contents

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

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