Task 4...

1. The Sociological Quarterly

people labeled mentally ill experience negative societal reactions'

'respondents reject the mentally ill'

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1533-8525.1992.tb00383.x/abstract

2. Media reinforcing mental illness stigma

‘assumption that people with mental illness were particularly dangerous’
‘Journalists are reinforcing the stigma around mental illness by failing to provide "balanced" coverage’

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/jan/24/broadcasting.pressandpublishing?INTCMP=SRCH

3. Cultivation

‘Cultivation research looks at the mass media as a socializing agent and investigates whether television viewers come to believe the television version of reality the more they watch it’

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/short/cultiv.html

4. Marxist Media Theory

‘in the mass media there is a tendency to avoid the unpopular and unconventional and to draw on 'values and assumptions which are most valuable and most widely legitimated’

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/marxism/marxism05.html

5. Genre & Film

‘genre is a type of cultural road-map, unproblematically defined and available to `frame' any particular film’

http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/film/laseur/chap1.html

6. Misrepersentations of Mental Illness in Film

‘Fictional film characters with mental conditions generally tend to fit into one of several extreme stereotypes, used to either shock, amuse or otherwise entertain us’
‘film has the power to influence people's beliefs on a mass scale, therefore it can be argued that filmmakers have a responsibility to present such portrayals more accurately and conscientiously. That said, it's important to remember that cinema is fiction and does not seek to be accurate at all times, nor is it the only medium to be creative with the truth.’

http://ezinearticles.com/?(Mis)representations-of-Mental-Illness-in-Film&id=1610236

7. Why Are Horror Films So Popular?

'Horror films are designed to scare and disgust viewers with evil characters, plots and events that can range from realistic to completely supernatural'

'One popular theory is that horror films touch on emotions that other films don't'

http://www.articlesbase.com/art-and-entertainment-articles/why-horror-films-are-so-popular-208906.html