Michael Birch

Mediating Mental Health

Contexts, Debates and Analysis

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 realities and identities, organize meaning about mental health through language, and addresses audiences in respect of a range of mental health issues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780754674740
• ISBN-10: 0754674746
• Artikelnr.: 45001275

Autorenporträt

Michael Birch lectures in the Department of English and Communications at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Mediating Mental Health
2: Critical Contexts
3: Historical Contexts for Popular Meanings of 'Madness'
An Outline of the Case Studies
4: Phase One, Genre Studies 1
5: Phase One, Genre Studies 2
6: Phase One, Genre Studies 3
7: Phase Two, Part 1
8: Phase Two, Part 2
9: Conclusion