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Mental illness in popular media : essays on the representation of disorders
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Mental illness in popular media : essays on the representation of disorders

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The hero with a thousand dysfluencies: the changing portrayal of people who stutter / Jeffrey K. Johnson
Representations of attention deficit disorder: portrayals of public skepticism in popular media / Elizabeth S. EnglandKennedy
Smooth operator: the compensated psychopath in cinema / Debra Merskin
The most dangerous deviants in America: why the disabled are depicted as deranged killers / Shawn M. Phillips
Off their rockers: representations of postpartum depression / Laura Tropp
Lesbianism and the fourth dimension: the psychotic lesbian / Julian Vigo
"The veteran problem": examining contemporary constructions of returning veterans / Alena Papayanis
Musical storm and mental stress: trauma and instability in contemporary American musical theater / Esther Terry
Bad girls: from Eve to Britney / Wanda Little Fenimore
Evolving stages: representations of mental illness in contemporary American theater / Sarah J. Rudolph
New media as a powerful ally in the representation of mental illness: YouTube, resistance and change / Katie Ellis
On the wings of Icarus: exploring the flawed superhero / Lawrence C. Rubin
The aesthetics of mad spaces: policing the public image of graffiti and mental illness in Canada / Kimberley White
Beyond beyond reason: images of people with mental disabilities in Australian film since the 1970s / Philippa Martyr
Representing "tradition," confusing "modernity": love and mental illness in Yoruba (Nigerian) video films / Sabeed Aderinto
Reframing mental health and illness: perspectives from the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival / Lee Knifton.

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Mental illness in popular media : essays on the representation of disorders. ISBN 9780786460656. Published by McFarland & Co. in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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