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

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 numb...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ellis, Katie, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Surrey : Ashgate, [2015]
Colección:Cultural politics of media and popular culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 201 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-191) and index.
ISBN:9781472411792
147241179X
9781472411808
1472411803