03703nam 22006615 450 991025507720332120230810192500.09783319664620331966462X10.1007/978-3-319-66462-0(CKB)4100000000882673(DE-He213)978-3-319-66462-0(MiAaPQ)EBC5089242(Perlego)3497018(EXLCZ)99410000000088267320171004d2017 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMedia, Performative Identity, and the New American Freak Show /by Jessica L. Williams1st ed. 2017.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2017.1 online resource (XII, 188 p. 20 illus., 16 illus. in color.) 9783319664613 3319664611 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction -- 2. The Mediated Freak Body -- 3. Horror Movies, Horror Bodies: Blurring the Freak Body in Cinema -- 4. Reality, Normality, Sexuality: "Authentic" Portrayals of the Freak -- 5. Disability Pornography and the Cultural Politics of Disabled Sexuality -- 6. Born This Way?: Disseminating Identification.This book traces how the American freak show has re-emerged in new visual forms in the 21st century. It explores the ways in which moving image media transmits and contextualizes, reinterprets and appropriates the freak show model into a "new American freak show." It investigates how new freak representations introduce narratives about sex, gender, and cultural perceptions of people with disabilities. The chapters examine such representations found in horror films, including a prolonged look at Freaks (1932) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), documentaries such as Murderball (2005) and TLC's Push Girls (2012-present), disability pornography including the pornographic documentary Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan Supermasochist (1997), and the music icons Marilyn Manson and Lady Gaga in their portrayals of disability and freakishness. Through this book we learn that the visual culture that has emerged takes the place of the traditional freak show but opens new channels of interpretation and identification through its use of mediated images as well as the altered freak-norm relationship that it has fostered. In its illumination of the relationship between normal and freakish bodies through different media, this book will appeal to students and academics interested in disability studies, gender studies, film theory, critical race theory and cultural studies. .Popular cultureSocial medicineSexFilm genresEthnologyAmericaCulturePopular CultureHealth, Medicine and SocietyGender StudiesGenre StudiesAmerican CulturePopular culture.Social medicine.Sex.Film genres.EthnologyCulture.Popular Culture.Health, Medicine and Society.Gender Studies.Genre Studies.American Culture.791.1Williams Jessica Lauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1061274BOOK9910255077203321Media, Performative Identity, and the New American Freak Show2518147UNINA