Mass Hysteria
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Mass Hysteria

Critical Psychology and Media Studies

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Mass Hysteria

Critical Psychology and Media Studies

About this book

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.

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Year
2017
Print ISBN
9780333647820
eBook ISBN
9781349911592

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction: From ‘mass hysteria’ to ‘people power’
  8. People power
  9. The ‘making up’ of the self
  10. The psychology of the Other
  11. Mass-media hysteria
  12. 1 Communication breakdown
  13. 2 Mass psychology
  14. 3 Studying media consumption
  15. 4 Subjectivity, ideology and representation
  16. 6 Psychoanalysis and feminism
  17. 7 Postmodernity and the psychological
  18. 8 Critical psychology
  19. 9 Criminality and psychopathology
  20. 10 Post-identities: sexuality and the colonial subject
  21. 11 Conclusion: Princess Diana and practices of subjectification
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index

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