Normalizing Mental Illness and Neurodiversity in Entertainment Media: Quieting the Madness - Paperback

by Malynnda Johnson (Editor), Christopher J. Olson (Editor)

This volume examines the shift towards positive and more accurate portrayals of mental illness in entertainment media, asking where these succeed and considering where more needs to be done.

Author Biography

Malynnda Johnson is an assistant professor of Communication at Indiana State University, USA, and the author of HIV on TV: Popular Culture's Epidemic.

Christopher J. Olson is completing his doctoral research at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. He is the co-author of Possessed Women, Haunted States: Cultural Tensions in Exorcism Cinema and the co-editor of Making Sense of Cinema: Empirical Studies into Film Spectators and Spectatorship; Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between: Challenging Gender and Sexuality Stereotypes in Children's Entertainment Media; and Convergent Wrestling: Participatory Culture, Transmedia Storytelling, and Intertextuality in the Squared Circle.