Mediating mental health : contexts, debates and analysis /

This book offers a detailed critical analysis of the representation of mental health conditions across a range of fictional and factual genres in film, television and radio, thus presenting an understanding of the ways in which media forms construct a mental health space, portray the related realiti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Birch, Michael
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012]
Subjects:	Mental illness in mass media. MEDICAL / Mental Health. PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health. PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Illness. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Mediating mental health: contexts, analysis and debate
Mediating mental health
Critical contexts
Historical contexts for popular meanings of madness
Genre studies 1: film
Genre studies 2: news and documentary
Genre studies 3: drama
The community project: reception study
The community project: production project.