ISBN:
1409440524
,
9781409440529
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Series Statement:
The cultural politics of media and popular culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Rodan, Debbie Disability, obesity and ageing
DDC:
302.2301/9
Keywords:
Identity (Psychology) and mass media
;
People with disabilities in mass media
;
Obesity in mass media
;
Older people in mass media
;
PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology
;
Identity (Psychology) and mass media
;
Obesity in mass media
;
Older people in mass media
;
People with disabilities in mass media
Abstract:
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 reality, drama and comic television programmes popular in the UK, USA and Australia to shed light on the representation of disability, obesity, and ageing the manner in which their status as unwanted and unwelcome identities is perpetuated
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
English
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