Description
Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review... 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 CultureTable 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
