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Whether in movies, cartoons, commercials, or even fast food marketing, psychology and mental illness remain pervasive in popular culture. In this collection of new essays, scholars from a range of fields explore representations of mental illness and disabilities across various media of popular culture. Contributors address how forms of psychiatric disorder have been addressed in film, on stage, and in literature, how popular culture genres are utilized to communicate often confusing and conflicted relationships with the mentally ill, and how popular cultures around the world reflect mental illness and disability. Analyses of sources as disparate as the Batman films, Broadway musicals and Nigerian home movies reveal how definitions of mental illness, mental health, and of psychology itself intersect with discourses on race, gender, law, capitalism, and globalization.Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Lawrence C. Rubin is a professor of counselor education at St. Thomas University in Miami, Florida, and a practicing psychologist. He lives in Pompano Beach.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword by Jonathan M. Metzl Introduction by Lawrence C. Rubin SECTIONMENTAL ILLNESS DEPICTED IN POPULAR CULTURE1. The Hero with a Thousand Dysfluencies: The Changing Portrayals of People Who Stutterby Jeffrey K. Johnson 2. Representations of Attention Deficit Disorder: Portrayals of Public Skepticism in Popular Mediaby Elizabeth S. England Kennedy 3. Smooth Operator: The Compensated Psychopath in Cinemaby Debra Merskin 4. The Most Dangerous Deviants in America: Why the Disabled Are Depicted as Deranged Killersby Shawn M. Phillips 5. Off Their Rockers: Representation of Postpartum Depression by Laura Tropp 6. Lesbianism and the Fourth Dimension: The Psychotic Lesbianby Julian Vigo 7. “The Veteran Problem”: Examining Contemporary Constructions of Returning Veteransby Alena Papayanis SECTIONPOPULAR CULTURE GENRES AND MENTAL ILLNESS8. Musical Storm and Mental Stress: Trauma and Instability in Contemporary American Musical Theaterby Esther Terry 9. Bad Girls: From Eve to Britneyby Wanda Little Fenimore 10. Evolving Stages: Representations of Mental Illness in Contemporary American Theaterby Sarah J. Rudolph 11. New Media as a Powerful Ally in the Representation of Mental Illness: YouTube, Resistance and Changeby Katie Ellis 12. On the Wings of Icarus: Exploring the Flawed Superheroby Lawrence C. Rubin SECTION THREEMENTAL ILLNESS AND POPULAR CULTURE ABROAD13. The Aesthetics of Mad Spaces: Policing the Public Image of Graffiti and Mental Illness in Canadaby Kimberley White 14. Beyond Beyond Reason: Images of People with Mental Disabilities in Australian Film Since the 1970sby Philippa Martyr 15. Representing “Tradition,” Confusing “Modernity”: Love and Mental Illness in Yoruba (Nigerian) Video Filmsby Saheed Aderinto 16. Reframing Mental Health and Illness: Perspectives from the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festivalby Lee Knifton Afterword About the Contributors Index
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Loretta Gallo-Lopez, Lawrence C. Rubin, USA) Gallo-Lopez, Loretta (in private practice, Florida, USA) Rubin, Lawrence C. (St. Thomas University, Florida