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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787631603321

Autore

Rodan Debbie

Titolo

Disability, obesity and ageing : popular media indentifications / / Debbie Rodan, Katie Ellis and Pia Lebeck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham Surrey, England : , : Ashgate, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-315-57741-0

1-317-15010-4

1-317-15009-0

1-4094-4052-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

The cultural politics of media and popular culture

Altri autori (Persone)

EllisKatie <1978->

LebeckPia

Disciplina

302.2301/9

Soggetti

Identity (Psychology) and mass media

People with disabilities in mass media

Obesity in mass media

Older people in mass media

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Part I Television as a Social Experience; 1 Introduction: Renegotiating Disability, Obesity and Ageing; 2  Tacit Knowledge: Cultural Representations of Disability, Obesity and Ageing; 3 A Marketplace of Ideas: Television as a Social Experience; 4  Audience Activity: Identification, Disidentification and Online Activity; Part II Identifications; 5 Disability Drama; 6 Obesity Makeover: Rejecting the Obese Body; 7 Ageing Transformations: Embracing the 'Young-Old' Body; 8 Conclusion: Beyond the Water-Cooler; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Disability, Obesity and Ageing offers an engaging account of a new area of pressing concern, analysing the way in which 'spurned' identities are depicted and reacted to in televisual genres and on-line forums. Examining the symbolic power of the media, this book presents case studies from reality, drama and comic television



programmes popular in the UK, USA and Australia to shed light on the representation of disability, obesity, and ageing the manner in which their status as unwanted and unwelcome identities is perpetuated.