Madness, Power and the Media - Class, Gender and Race in Popular Representations of Mental Distress

Informationen zum Autor STEPHEN HARPER is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: S Harper, S. Harper, Stephen Harper
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2009
• EAN: 9780230218802
• ISBN: 978-0-230-21880-2
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); B, Media Studies, Culture, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Communication, Ethnology, Regional and Cultural Studies, Regional Cultural Studies, Media and Communication, Sociology, general, Media Research, Regional Studies, Media Sociology, Culture—Study and teaching, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Film and Television Studies, Screen Studies, Motion pictures and television