Mediating Madness: Mental Distress and Cultural Representation

by SimonCross (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2010

  $91.55

  Mediating Madness examines how mediations of madness emerge, disappear and interleave, only to re-emerge at unexpected moments. Drawing on social and cultural histories of madness, history of art, and popular journalism, the book offers a unique interdisciplinary understanding of historical and contemporary media representations of madness.