Mediating Madness: Mental Distress and Cultural Representation

ISBN-13: 9780230005310 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 202 str.

Simon Cross

Opis

Mediating Madness examines how mediations of madness emerge, disappear and interleave, only to re-emerge at unexpected moments. Drawing on social and cultural histories of madness, history of art, and popular journalism, the book offers a unique interdisciplinary understanding of historical and contemporary media representations of madness.

Spis treści

Introduction Madness and the Popular Imagination Illustrations of Madness: Seeing and Reading Historical Images of Insanity Bedlam in 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 Speaking of Voices: Mediating Public Talk about Mental Illness (co-authored with Graham Murdock) Conclusion Notes Index

O autorze

SIMON CROSS is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Nottingham Trent University, UK. His research focuses on areas of sensitive public policy.