ISBN:
9781472411792
,
147241179X
,
9781472411808
,
1472411803
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 201 pages)
Series Statement:
The cultural politics of media and popular culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ellis, Katie, 1978- Disability and popular culture
DDC:
305.908
Keywords:
People with disabilities in mass media
;
Popular culture
;
People with disabilities in mass media
;
Popular culture
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-191) and index. - Print version record
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