Disability and popular culture : focusing passion, creating community and expressing defiance / / Katie Ellis
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| Autore: |
Ellis Katie <1978-, >
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| Titolo: |
Disability and popular culture : focusing passion, creating community and expressing defiance / / Katie Ellis
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (212 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.9/08 |
| Soggetto topico: | People with disabilities in mass media |
| Popular culture | |
| Classificazione: | 305.908 ELL |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Disability and popular culture |
| ISBN: | 1-315-57732-1 |
| 1-317-15037-6 | |
| 1-317-15036-8 | |
| 1-4724-1179-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910824367003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Cultural politics of media and popular culture.