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Author:   Emily Katseanes
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.263kg
ISBN:  

9781476682709

ISBN 10:   1476682704
Pages:   193
Publication Date:   04 January 2023
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Introduction: Red Envelopes and a Pop Culture Education: How Netflix Teaches Us About Mental Health and Illness Emily Katseanes Making Visible the Incomprehensible: Ambiguity, Metaphor and Mental Illness in The Haunting of Hill House Djuna Hallsworth “Born with a leak”: Happiness, Distress and Accountability in BoJack Horseman Lemonia Gianniri Fear of Infectious Psychopathy in Mindhunter Erin C. Heath “Escaping is not the same as making it”: PTSD Post-Sexual Assault in The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Marvel’s Jessica Jones and Stranger Things Emily Katseanes “Everybody seems to be doing super great, and I’m kind of not”: Depression in Big Mouth Anastasia R. Wickham “It’s got to be in your head”: Using Mental Illness to Silence Chronic Conditions in Afflicted Brynn Fitzsimmons Madness as Mystic Purpose in Sense8: Jeannie G. Bennett The Memeification of Mental Illness: How You Launched a Serial Killer Thirst Trap Jen England About the Contributors Index

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... an important and useful critique of the representation of mental illness in popular media -Carol-Ann Farkas, ed., Reading the Psychosomatic in Medical and Popular Culture

... an important and useful critique of the representation of mental illness in popular media --Carol-Ann Farkas, ed., Reading the Psychosomatic in Medical and Popular Culture

"... an important and useful critique of the representation of mental illness in popular media""—Carol-Ann Farkas, ed., Reading the Psychosomatic in Medical and Popular Culture"

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Emily Katseanes has taught at New Mexico State University, Louisiana State University, the University of Southern Mississippi, and the University of Colorado. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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