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

Ellis, Katie, 1978-

Surrey : Ashgate, 2015

Online Ressource (x, 201 pages)

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-191) and index. - Print version record

Erscheint auch als: Ellis, Katie, 1978- : Disability and popular culture. - Burlington : Ashgate, 2015 (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-1-4724-1179-2 ; 1-4724-1179-X ; 978-1-4724-1180-8 ; 1-4724-1180-3

978-1-4724-1178-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 1-4724-1178-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-4724-1178-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 895258019 (aus SWB)     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang beim Produzenten (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

HV1568

305.908 ; 305.9/08     Ähnliche Literatur

bisacsh: SOC031000 ; bisacsh: SOC020000 ; bisacsh: SOC 020000 ; bisacsh: SOC 031000

LOC-SH: Electronic books ; People with disabilities in mass media ; Popular culture

Electronic books ; People with disabilities in mass media ; Popular culture ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies

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