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