Mediating Mental Health: Contexts, Debates and Analysis

By Michael Birch

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754674746
• ISBN13: 9780754674740
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"