Mediating madness
Subtitle: mental distress and cultural representation
By: Simon Cross.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230005310
Subjects: Mental illness in mass media
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; title: Madness and the Popular Imagination; title: Illustrations of Madness: Seeing and Reading Historical Images of Insanity; title: Bedlam in Mind: Campaigning Journalists and Public Images of Insanity; title: Mad, Bad and Dangerous: Psychiatry and Criminals in the Popular Press; title: Visualising Madness: Mental Illness and Public Representation; title: Speaking of Voices: Mediating Public Talk about Mental Illness (co-authored with Graham Murdock); title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: Index.