ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes fictional and non-fictional forms referring to mental health. Fictional mediations included a comic strip as well as horror, drama and melodramatic comedy-drama forms from television and cinema. Non-fictional mediations included news and documentary forms from radio and television. The films Angel Baby and Family Life also represent mental health through careful portrayal of characters and employ formal components to qualitatively reflect conditions and society. Mental health is made accessible when its meanings are marshalled with proportionality to a reality properly representative of schizophrenia, as attributed in Channel 4 News and The Today Programme. Drama is clearly a tool with a wide aesthetic and discursive range for media producers engaging with mental health themes as knowledge tensions1 about mental health exist in different values across all forms. In Phase Two, the Community Projects two parts, the Reception and Production studies, continued the generic focus.
