HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Angelina Jolie, Media Matters For America, Bipolar Disorder
19 Oct 2017
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Lecture 9 (guest speaker) - popular portrayals of mental illness. Where do we learn about mental illness: newspapers, literature, magazines, social media, television, film, etc. Why media matters: it reaches a large audience. No matter what their background, nancial pool, age, etc: creates the standard of what is considered to be normal". Creates discrimination: mixed reception / representation - wrong de nitions of certain topics. Monday, june 5, 2017: chooses select stories. On tv, 1 in 4 mentally ill individuals murder, 50% commit violent acts. Reality: far more often victims than perpetrators of violent crime: unpredictable. Ready to y off hinge at any moment: idiotic. People con ate mental disorder w/ intellectual impairment: females as insatiable seductresses (early career angelina jolie characters, mad genius (a beautiful mind, shine) What do these themes produce in society: leads to more stigma about mental illness, incorrect usage of certain mental illness terminology.
