Madness, Power and the Media Class, Gender and Race in Popular Repre

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 reprod

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Madness, Power and the Media

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Madness, Power and the Media

Also by Stephen Harper: INSANITY, INDIVIDUALS AND SOCIETY IN LATE-MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE (2003) CONSTRUCTING ‘THE WICKER MAN’: Film and Cultural Studies Perspectives (co-edited, 2005)

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THE QUEST FOR THE WICKER MAN (co-edited, 2006)

Madness, Power and the Media

Stephen Harper Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Portsmouth, UK

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Class, Gender and Race in Popular Representations of Mental Distress

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