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Madness, Power and the Media Class, Gender and Race in Popular Representations of Mental Distress

Questioning the psychiatric construction of mental distress as 'illness', and challenging existing studies of media stigmatization, Stephen Harper argues that today's media images of mental distress are often sympathetic, yet tend to reproduce the sexist, classist, racist and individu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harper, Stephen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2009, 2009
Subjects:
Film And Television Studies
Communication
Regional And Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies
Mass Media
Cultural And Media Studies
Motion Pictures And Television
Sociology, General
Culture / Study And Teaching
Sociology
Media Studies
Media Research
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Questioning the psychiatric construction of mental distress as 'illness', and challenging existing studies of media stigmatization, Stephen Harper argues that today's media images of mental distress are often sympathetic, yet tend to reproduce the sexist, classist, racist and individualist ideologies of contemporary capitalism
Physical Description:VI, 238 p online resource
ISBN:9780230249509

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