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Mental illness in popular culture / Sharon Packer, MD, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Gale eBooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mental illness in art.
- Mental illness in literature.
- Mental illness in mass media.
- Mental illness in motion pictures.
- Mental illness in music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 364 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2017]
- Summary:
- This book explores the intersections of pop culture and mental illness as covered in movies, television, popular literature, the visual arts, and popular music. It showcases a wide variety of media representations of mental illness, enabling the reader to choose which views they accept, and spotlights how popular culture mirrors changing attitudes toward mental illness and is helping pave the path to greater acceptance.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Cinema : the big screen
- pt. 2. Television : the small screen
- pt. 3. Novels, poetry, memoirs, and short stories
- pt. 4. Comics, art, graphic novels, and video games
- pt. 5. Music, musicians, and musical theater.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9798216116806
- 9781440843891
- 1440843899
- OCLC:
- 971615702
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