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"Because that's not how people are"- En kvalitativ innehållsanalys om hur psykisk ohälsa framställs i spelfilm

Gustafsson, Felicia LU and Widarsson, Linda LU (2018) SOPA63 20172
School of Social Work
Abstract
The purpose of our study was to examine the prevailing norms of mental illness, and how it is portrayed in popular culture, by analyzing four selected feature films that all highlight mental illness of some kind. We have done this through a qualitative study with a thematic analysis, in which all four films have been studied thoroughly. The study has a social constructivist approach since our way of talking about and representing mental illness in feature films constitutes on how we experience the world. We have also used the concepts ‘norm’ and ‘stigma’ to analyze the empiricism. The results that we found confirms commonly-occurring notions of mental illness but also some prominent elements that challenge and contradict these beliefs.
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author
Gustafsson, Felicia LU and Widarsson, Linda LU
supervisor
organization
course
SOPA63 20172
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Mental illness, norms, stigma, media, film
language
Swedish
id
8932834
date added to LUP
2018-01-19 08:31:36
date last changed
2018-01-19 08:31:36
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  abstract     = {{The purpose of our study was to examine the prevailing norms of mental illness, and how it is portrayed in popular culture, by analyzing four selected feature films that all highlight mental illness of some kind. We have done this through a qualitative study with a thematic analysis, in which all four films have been studied thoroughly. The study has a social constructivist approach since our way of talking about and representing mental illness in feature films constitutes on how we experience the world. We have also used the concepts ‘norm’ and ‘stigma’ to analyze the empiricism. The results that we found confirms commonly-occurring notions of mental illness but also some prominent elements that challenge and contradict these beliefs.}},
  author       = {{Gustafsson, Felicia and Widarsson, Linda}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{"Because that's not how people are"- En kvalitativ innehållsanalys om hur psykisk ohälsa framställs i spelfilm}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}