Mediating madness[electronic resourc...
Cross, Simon, (1964-)

 

  • Mediating madness[electronic resource] :mental distress and cultural representation /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 362.2
    書名/作者: Mediating madness : mental distress and cultural representation // Simon Cross.
    作者: Cross, Simon,
    出版者: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2010.
    面頁冊數: xi, 202 p. : : ill.
    標題: Mental illness in mass media.
    ISBN: 9780230276079
    ISBN: 0230276075
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: Introduction -- Madness and the Popular Imagination -- Illustrationsof Madness: Seeing and Reading Historical Images of Insanity -- Bedlamin Mind: Campaigning Journalists and Public Images of Insanity -- Mad,Bad and Dangerous: Psychiatry and Criminals in the Popular Press -- Visualising Madness: Mental Illness and Public Representation -- Speakingof Voices: Mediating Public Talk about Mental Illness (co-authored with Graham Murdock) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index --.
    摘要、提要註: Images and representations of madness are prevalent across historical and contemporary media culture and it is assumed that past images share basic similarities with modern media stereotypes. Simon Cross's Mediating Madness: Mental Distress and Cultural Representation rejects thisconventionalview and offers instead an understanding of change and continuity in the cultural image of madness.Using a unique blend of cultural history, journalism studies and media analysis, Cross explores howand why images of madness and mad folk remain central to the popular imagination. He shows that while the psychiatric profession would preferto abolish the lay category of 'madness' as unscientific, it remains indispensable for contemporary media and cultural analysis. Through a series of historicallyinformed case studies, madness is revealed to be acritical counterpoint in the changing cultural politics of mental distress. As such, Mediating Madness will be invaluable reading for students and scholars of cultural and media studies, journalism and applied social studies.
    電子資源: access to fulltext (Palgrave)
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