Download or read book Takin Over the Asylum written by Donna Franceschild and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adapted for the stage by the author, Takin' Over the Asylum is a hilarious, updated and profoundly moving adaptation of Donna Franceschild's Bafta-winning BBC TV-series. Set in a Scottish mental institution, the play reveals hope and joy in the fragile beauty of the human heart. When Ready Eddie McKenna, Soul Survivor and double glazing salesman, arrives to reinvigorate St Jude's defunct hospital radio station he turns more than the ramshackle station upside down. The whisky drinking would-be DJ meets the 19-year-old bipolar Campbell, schizophrenic electronic genius Fergus, OCD Rosalie and the elusive self-harming Francine. Fighting against illness and perception Eddie and the patients of St Jude's strive for their dreams to be accepted.
Download or read book Takin Over the Asylum written by Donna Franceschild and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adapted for the stage by the author, Takin' Over the Asylum is a hilarious, updated and profoundly moving adaptation of Donna Franceschild's Bafta-winning BBC TV-series. Set in a Scottish mental institution, the play reveals hope and joy in the fragile beauty of the human heart. When Ready Eddie McKenna, Soul Survivor and double glazing salesman, arrives to reinvigorate St Jude's defunct hospital radio station he turns more than the ramshackle station upside down. The whisky drinking would-be DJ meets the 19-year-old bipolar Campbell, schizophrenic electronic genius Fergus, OCD Rosalie and the elusive self-harming Francine. Fighting against illness and perception Eddie and the patients of St Jude's strive for their dreams to be accepted.
Download or read book Social Issues in Television Fiction written by Lesley Henderson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are some controversial issues covered in TV soaps and dramas and not others? How are decisions really made 'behind the scenes'? How do programme makers push boundaries without losing viewers? What do audiences take away from their viewing experience? Does TV fiction have a greater impact on public understandings than TV news? This exciting new book draws on unique empirical data to examine the relationship between popular television fiction and wider society.The book gives lively and engaging insights into how and why socially sensitive story lines were taken up by different TV programmes from the late 1980s to the 2000s. Drawing on a series of case studies of medicine, health, illness and social problems including breast cancer, mental distress, sexual abuse and violence it comprehensively traces the path of storylines from initial conception through to audience reception and uses contemporary examples to link practice to theory. For the first time, this book addresses production and receptio
Download or read book Mediating Mental Health written by Michael Birch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of media representations about mental health is now a global issue with health agencies expressing concern about produced stigma and its outcomes, specifically social exclusion. In many countries, the statistic of one in four people experiencing a mental health condition prevails, making it essential that more is known about how to improve media portrayals. With a globally projected increase in mental health conditions Mediating Mental Health offers a detailed critical analysis of media representations in two phases looking closely at genre form. The book looks across fictional and factual genres in film, television and radio examining media constructions of mental health identity. It also questions the opinions of journalists, mental healthcare professionals and people with conditions with regard to mediated mental health meanings. Finally, as a result of a production project, people with conditions develop new images making critical contrasts with dominant media portrayals. Thus, useful and practical recommendations for developing media practice ensue. As such, this book will appeal to mental health professionals, people with conditions, journalists, sociologists, students and scholars of media and cultural studies, practitioners in applied theatre, and anyone interested in media representations of social groups.
Download or read book Un Conventional 13 Years of Meeting the Stars of Doctor Who written by Karen Louise Hollis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 27, Karen was living a conventional life as a mother and housewife in Lincolnshire. Then she met Colin Baker in 1997. Following this, she spent 13 years meeting the stars of DOCTOR WHO, travelling round the country attending conventions and watching plays. This is the story of those meetings...
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors written by Jerry Roberts and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-06-05 with total page 863 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From live productions of the 1950s like Requiem for a Heavyweight to big budget mini-series like Band of Brothers, long-form television programs have been helmed by some of the most creative and accomplished names in directing. Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors brings attention to the directors of these productions, citing every director of stand alone long-form television programs: made for TV movies, movie-length pilots, mini-series, and feature-length anthology programs, as well as drama, comedy, and musical specials of more than 60 minutes. Each of the nearly 2,000 entries provides a brief career sketch of the director, his or her notable works, awards, and a filmography. Many entries also provide brief discussions of key shows, movies, and other productions. Appendixes include Emmy Awards, DGA Awards, and other accolades, as well as a list of anthology programs. A much-needed reference that celebrates these often-neglected artists, Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the history of the medium.
Download or read book Deinstitutionalisation and After written by Despo Kritsotaki and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book relates the history of post-war psychiatry, focusing on deinstitutionalisation, namely the shift from asylum to community in the second part of the twentieth century. After the Second World War, psychiatry and mental health care were reshaped by deinstitutionalisation. But what exactly was involved in this process? What were the origins of deinstitutionalisation and what did it mean to those who experienced it? What were the ramifications, both positive and negative, of such a fundamental shift in psychiatric care? Post-War Psychiatry in the Western World: Deinstitutionalisation and After seeks to answer these questions by exploring this momentous change in mental health care from 1945 to the present in a wide range of geographical settings. The book articulates a nuanced account of the history of deinstitutionalisation, highlighting the constraints and inconsistencies inherent in treating the mentally ill outside of the asylum, while seeking to inform current debates about how to help the most vulnerable members of society.
Download or read book Report and Accounts written by British Broadcasting Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contemporary Scottish Fictions written by Duncan J. Petrie and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The last 20 years have witnessed an unprecedented flourishing of cultural expression in Scotland, regarded by some as a response to a growing sense of political disenfranchisement. Contemporary Scottish Fictions explores some of the major figures, works, themes and aesthetics of this cultural renaissance in the high profile areas of film, television drama and the novel." "This book is aimed at a wide readership of students and academics in Scottish Studies, Literary Studies, Film and TV Studies, as well as the general reader with an interest in contemporary Scottish culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Media and Mental Distress written by Glasgow University Media Group and published by Addison Wesley Longman. This book was released on 1996 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative study of the media's portrayal of mental illness and the impact it has on the general public and attitudes and responses of carers and users of the mental health services. The Glasgow Media Group has been well known for the last twenty years for its ground breaking empirical research on the impact of the media in shaping public opinion. This book draws upon the Group's most recent research in conjunction with Scotland's Health Education Board to investigate the processes that condition media images; to examine factual and fictional presentation of mental illness in the media; public perception to certain illnesses, and to assess the impact of the media on the careers of those engaged in mental health services.
Download or read book International Television Video Almanac written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book BFI Film and Television Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Statesman Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1995-05 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theatre Scotland written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Scot Pack written by Brian Pendreigh and published by Mainstream Publishing Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently Scotland's international film stars could be summed up in two words-Sean Connery.That was before Trainspotting.It turned Ewan McGregor into an iconand kick-started the careers of Robert Carlyle and Peter Mullan.And it transformed Kelly MacDonald from barmaid into screen sensation.But they wre just the vanguard of a new phenomenon. Havin conqured the British film industry,young Scots are taking Hollywood by storm.Angus MacFadyen followed his stint as Robert the Bruce inBraveheart with his take on Orson Welles in Cadle Will Rock and he co-stars in the Shakespearean epic Titus with fellow Scots Alan Cumming and Laura Fraser.John Hannah set the international box office alightwith The Mummy,Craig Ferguson scored with The Big Tease and Dougray Scottmade a name for himself in Ever After and Mission Impossible 2.In The Phantom Menace the goodie and the baddie are both Scots-with Ewan McGregor as the legendary Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ray Park as Darth Maul.And Ray Park co-stars with Dougray Scott in the superhero adventure X-Men.We have had the rat Pack,the Brat Pack.Now it is the turn of the Scot PAck.
Download or read book Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Drowned World written by Gary Owen and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2002 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Owen's vicious tale on love, revolt and beauty presents a world divided between citizens and non-citizens, where friends betray one another and where surfaces matter more than love and kinship.
