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The idea of the "mass mind" has been central to psychology and media studies, for example in debates about the extraordinary public reaction to Princess Diana's death or about the power of television and the popular press to influence opinion. Blackman (media and communication studies, Goldsmiths College, London) and Walkerdine (critical psychology, U. of Western Sidney Nepean) draw on post-structuralism, discursive psychology, post-colonial theory, and feminism to examine the social, political, theoretical, and historical conditions that have led to the problem of the media being posed as a problem of the "mass mind." They include case studies involving figures such as Princess Diana and British murderers Fred and Rosemary West. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements = ⅷ
Introduction : From 'mass hysteria' to 'people power' = 1
 People power = 2
 The 'making up' of the self = 3
 The psychology of the Other = 9
 Mass-media hysteria = 13
1 Communication breakdown = 16
 The semiotic production of reality = 19
 Summary = 25
2 Mass psychology = 26
 The psy complex = 28
 Psychology as a science of population management = 30
 The oversensitive masses = 31
 Foucault's approach to truth = 33
 Social psychology = 34
 The psychoanalysis of groups = 35
 Karl Marx = 36
 Murderous children = 37
3 Studying media consumption = 39
 Effects research = 40
 The quantification of media effects = 42
 Towards a science of media consumption? = 44
 Opposition to effects research = 45
 Towards a semiotics of media production = 47
 Uses and gratifications = 49
 Further moves to the active audience = 51
 Problems with identity = 54
4 Subjectivity, ideology and representation = 59
 The Frankfurt School = 61
 Marxism, ideology and consciousness = 64
 Louis Althusser = 66
 The unconscious structured like a language = 67
5 Feminism, psychoanalysis and the media = 70
 Basic concepts of Lacanian psychoanalysis = 70
 Screen theory = 76
 Media education = 77
6 Psychoanalysis and feminism = 79
 French psychoanalytic feminisms = 82
 Catherine Clement and Helene Cixous = 84
 Women's pleasure = 84
 Postmodernity and femininity = 86
 The nomad, the hybrid and the cyborg = 88
7 Postmodernity and the psychological = 90
 Psychological concepts in postmodernist cultural theory = 93
 Baudrillard, Lyotard and postmodernity = 95
8 Critical psychology = 101
 Critical psychology - the negation of a realist perspective = 102
 The crisis = 105
 The turn to language = 108
 The decentring of the individual = 112
 Discourse and the psychological = 114
 Going critical = 116
 Institutions, power and ideology = 116
 The positivity of power = 117
 Being-in-relation = 118
9 Criminality and psychopathology = 122
 Systems of exclusion = 124
 Mad, bad and dangerous to know = 124
 Fear on the streets = 126
 Ordinary madness = 128
 All men are rapists... = 130
 The voice of reason = 131
 The Hearing Voices Network = 132
 The materiality of signs = 134
 Do violent women exist? = 138
 Rosemary West and Princess Diana = 142
 The ordinary killer = 146
 Fascination, fear, loathing and ambivalence = 147
10 Post-identities : sexuality and the colonial subject = 152
 The age of normalization = 153
 Race and intelligence = 155
 The colonial subject = 158
 Black psychology = 158
 Fear, phobia and fetish = 159
 The active audience = 163
 The overdetermination of identity = 164
 A politics of transformation = 165
 Different sexualities = 167
 The age of repression = 168
 The homosexual stereotype = 170
 The politics of representation = 173
11 Conclusion : Princess Diana and practices of subjectification = 179
 The crowd in the age of Diana = 186
 Hysterical masses and revolutionary crowds = 187
 Psychological selfhood and self-invention = 189
 Gender, class and labour in New Britain = 191
Bibliography = 197
Index = 207