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Streaming mental health and illness : essays on representation in Netflix original programs
- Title
- Streaming mental health and illness : essays on representation in Netflix original programs / edited by Emily Katseanes.
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2023]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Katseanes, Emily, 1986-
- Description
- viii, 185 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "From mindfulness in schools to meditation apps, mental health is bursting out of the psychiatrist's chair and into our everyday conversations. As awareness of mental health increases, so does its predominance in popular culture, which makes for a particularly interesting investigation into the representation of these concerns on our most ubiquitous streaming service: Netflix. These eight essays explore how the service's original content jumps into those conversations, creating helpful--or harmful--messaging about the inner workings of our minds. From toxic masculinity to PTSD, adolescence to motherhood, mental health touches our lives in myriad ways. This interdisciplinary collection explores these intersections, examining how representations of mental health on our screens shape our understanding of it in our lives"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Television criticism and reviews.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Making visible the incomprehensible: ambiguity, metaphor and mental illness in The haunting of Hill House / Emily Katseanes -- "Born with a leak": hapiness, 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 memification of mental illness: how You launched a serial killer thirst trap / Jen England.
- Call Number
- MWGS 23-698
- ISBN
- 9781476682709
- 1476682704
- 9781476646558 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022054432
- OCLC
- 1363105376
- Title
- Streaming mental health and illness : essays on representation in Netflix original programs / edited by Emily Katseanes.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2023]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Katseanes, Emily, 1986- editor.
- Research Call Number
- MWGS 23-698