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Madness, Power and the Media

Class, Gender and Race in Popular Representations of Mental Distress

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  • © 2009

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  1. Stephen Harper

    1. University of Portsmouth, UK

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Framing Madness: Historical and Cultural Debates

    • Stephen Harper
    Pages 1-31

  3. Stigmatisation, Violence and Media Criticism

    • Stephen Harper
    Pages 32-58

  4. The Suffering Screen: Cinematic Portrayals of Mental Distress

    • Stephen Harper
    Pages 59-102

  5. Channelling Affliction: Television Discourses of Distress

    • Stephen Harper
    Pages 103-150

  6. A New Leaf?: Changing Representations of Mental Distress in Print Media

    • Stephen Harper
    Pages 151-185

  7. Conclusion: Media, Madness and Ideology

    • Stephen Harper
    Pages 186-199

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 200-238
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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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Portsmouth, UK

    Stephen Harper

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STEPHEN HARPER is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK.

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