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1 online resource (307 pages) |
| Contents |
The hero with a thousand dysfluencies: the changing portrayal of people who stutter / Jeffrey K. Johnson -- Representations of attention deficit disorder: portrayals of public skepticism in popular media / Elizabeth S. EnglandKennedy -- Smooth operator: the compensated psychopath in cinema / Debra Merskin -- The most dangerous deviants in America: why the disabled are depicted as deranged killers / Shawn M. Phillips -- Off their rockers: representations of postpartum depression / Laura Tropp -- Lesbianism and the fourth dimension: the psychotic lesbian / Julian Vigo -- "The veteran problem": examining contemporary constructions of returning veterans / Alena Papayanis -- Musical storm and mental stress: trauma and instability in contemporary American musical theater / Esther Terry -- Bad girls: from Eve to Britney / Wanda Little Fenimore -- Evolving stages: representations of mental illness in contemporary American theater / Sarah J. Rudolph -- New media as a powerful ally in the representation of mental illness: YouTube, resistance and change / Katie Ellis -- On the wings of Icarus: exploring the flawed superhero / Lawrence C. Rubin -- The aesthetics of mad spaces: policing the public image of graffiti and mental illness in Canada / Kimberley White -- Beyond beyond reason: images of people with mental disabilities in Australian film since the 1970s / Philippa Martyr -- Representing "tradition," confusing "modernity": love and mental illness in Yoruba (Nigerian) video films / Sabeed Aderinto -- Reframing mental health and illness: perspectives from the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival / Lee Knifton |
| Summary |
"Whether in movies, cartoons, commercials, or even fast food marketing, psychology and mental illness remain pervasive in popular culture. In this collection of new essays, scholars from a range of fields explore representations of mental illness and disabilities across various media of popular culture. Contributors address how forms of psychiatric disorder have been addressed in film, on stage, and in literature, how popular culture genres are utilized to communicate often confusing and conflicted relationships with the mentally ill, and how popular cultures around the world reflect mental illlness and disability. Analyses of sources as disparate as the Batman films, Broadway musicals and Nigerian home movies reveal how definitions of mental illness, mental health, and of psychology itself intersect with discourses on race, gender, law, capitalism, and globalization |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Mental illness in mass media.
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Mental illness.
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Mass media.
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Mental Disorders
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Mass Media
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Communications Media
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mental disorders.
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mass media.
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MEDICAL -- Mental Health.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness.
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Mental illness
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Mass media
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Mental illness in mass media
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rubin, Lawrence C., 1955- editor.
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Metzl, Jonathan, 1964- writer of forward.
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| ISBN |
9780786488636 |
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0786488638 |
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