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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824367003321

Autore

Ellis Katie <1978-, >

Titolo

Disability and popular culture : focusing passion, creating community and expressing defiance / / Katie Ellis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-57732-1

1-317-15037-6

1-317-15036-8

1-4724-1179-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Collana

The cultural politics of media and popular culture

Classificazione

305.908 ELL

Disciplina

305.9/08

Soggetti

People with disabilities in mass media

Popular culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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