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Visualizing Madness

Mental Illness and Public Representation

Simon Cross

University of Lincoln

This article explores continuities between traditional iconographies of madness and images of mental illness mobilized by contemporary television program makers. In particular, it investigates how contrasting forms of British TV documentary visualize "dangerous" mental patients abroad in the community. In constructing the argument, particular attention is given to the role of documentary television in making visible the lives of schizophrenics vis-à-vis changing notions of psychiatric care in the community. By doing so, the article adopts an approach to public representations of madness/mental illness that takes account of documentary television as a cultural form with social responsibility. The article concludes by emphasizing television’s cultural importance as a visual medium capable of promoting or undermining mentally ill people’s symbolic presence within a community of citizens.

Key Words: television documentary • madness/mental illness • "care in the community" • public representation • visual image

Television & New Media, Vol. 5, No. 3, 197-216 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1527476403254001
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