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Mediating madnessmental distress and cultural representation /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mediating madnessSimon Cross.
Reminder of title:	mental distress and cultural representation /
Author:	Cross, Simon,
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan,2010.
Description:	xi, 202 p. :ill.
Subject:	Mental illness in mass media.
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230276079

Mediating madnessmental distress and cultural representation /
Cross, Simon,1964-

Mediating madnessmental distress and cultural representation /[electronic resource] :Simon Cross. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan,2010. - xi, 202 p. :ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 --.

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.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230276079Subjects--Topical Terms:

461576
Mental illness in mass media.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: P96.M45 / C76 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 362.2

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520 $a 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.
520 $a "Mediating Madness examines how mediations of madness emerge, disappear and interleave, only to re-emerge at unexpected moments. Drawing onsocial and cultural histories of madness, history of art, and popular journalism, the book offers a unique interdisciplinary understanding ofhistorical and contemporary media representations of madness"--Provided by publisher.
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