Mass hysteria : critical psychology and media studies / Lisa Blackman and Valerie Walkerdine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blackman, Lisa, 1965-

Contributor:

Walkerdine, Valerie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Psychological aspects.

Mass media.

Social psychology.

Physical Description:

viii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, N.Y. : Palgrave, 2001.

Summary:

This book is an innovative approach to the relationship between psychology and the media. Drawing on post-structuralism, discursive psychology, postcolonial theory, and feminism, the book demonstrates the centrality of images of Otherness in the relation between the normal and pathological that lies at the heart of the relationship between psychology and the media.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-206) and index.

ISBN:

0333647815

0333647823

OCLC:

44701293