Disability, obesity and ageing : popular media identifications /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Farnham, Surrey :
Ashgate Publishing Limited,
[2014]
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Colección: | Cultural politics of media and popular culture.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 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
- pt. II IDENTIFICATIONS
- 5. Disability Drama
- 6. Obesity Makeover: Rejecting the Obese Body
- 7. Ageing Transformations: Embracing the Ỳoung-Old' Body
- 8. Conclusion: Beyond the Water-Cooler
- Reinforcing and Contesting the Symbolic Annihilation of Disability, Obesity and Ageing.