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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.