UID:
almafu_9959237549802883
Format:
1 online resource (212 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-315-57732-1
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1-317-15037-6
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1-317-15036-8
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1-4724-1179-X
Series Statement:
The cultural politics of media and popular culture
Content:
As a response to real or imagined subordination, popular culture reflects the everyday experience of ordinary people and has the capacity to subvert the hegemonic order. Drawing on central theoretical approaches in the field of critical disability studies, this book examines disability across a number of internationally recognised texts and objects. While acknowledging that disability features in popular culture in ways that reinforce stereotypes and stigmatise, Disability and Popular Culture celebrates and complicates the increasing visibility of disability in popular culture, showing how pop
Note:
"First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.
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List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: producerly disability -- Our moment in time : the transitory and concrete value of disability toys -- Contemporary beauty-ism -- Spaces of cultural mediation : the science fiction cinema of the third stage of disability -- Among the leading characters on television -- Enfreaking popular music : making us think by making us feel -- Controlling the body : sport, disability and the construction of ability -- Disability and spreadable media : access, representation and inspiration porn -- Conclusion : focusing passion, creating community, expressing defiance -- References -- Filmography.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-87231-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4724-1178-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781315577326
