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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rodan, Debbie
Otros Autores: Ellis, Katie, 1978-, Lebeck, Pia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2014]
Colección:Cultural politics of media and popular culture.
Temas:
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.