Mass hysteria : critical psychology and media studies
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Mass hysteria : critical psychology and media studies
Palgrave, 2001
- : hard
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-206) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hard ISBN 9780333647813
Description
Assuming no previous knowledge of psychology, this text provides an introduction to a field that is central to media studies. Using approaches such as discourse analysis, semiotics and post-structuralism, the book gently introduces the reader to psychology and its importance within media studies. Written in an accessible style, it has case studies and examples, chapter objectives and summaries, illustrative material and further reading sections.
Table of Contents
- The media as the object of psychological study
- the psychological study of mass media
- subjectivity, ideology and representation
- screen theory
- discursive, postmodern psychologies and textual subjects
- feminism, psychoanalysis and the media
- representing the body
- criminality and mass phenomena
- subjectivity and popular culture
- new directions. (Part contents).
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: pbk ISBN 9780333647820
Description
This book provides an innovative approach to the relation of psychology to the media for media and cultural studies students. Drawing on post-structuralism, discursive psychology, postcolonial theory and feminism, the book explores the regulation of the masses and its place both in the project of psychology and of media studies. By means of a number of innovative case studies, the book demonstrates the centrality of images of Otherness in constituting the relation between the normal and pathological that lies at the heart of the relationship between psychology and the media. The book establishes a way beyond the present impasse and looks forward to a different way of thinking about psychology and the media. Essential reading for all media and cultural studies students and for those interested in media psychology.
Table of Contents
Introduction: From Mass Hysteria to People Power.- Communication Breakdown.- Mass Psychology.- Studying Media Consumption.- Subjectivity, Ideology and Representation.- Feminism, Psychoanalysis and the Media.- Psychoanalysis and Feminism.- Postmodernity and the Psychological.- Critical Psychology.- Criminality and Psychopathology.- Post-Identities: Sexuality and the Colonial Subject.- Conclusion: Princess Diana and Practices of Subjectification.- Further Questions and Reading.- References.- Index.
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