Disability and Popular Culture Focusing Passion, Creating Community and Expressing Defiance

• Main Author: Ellis, Katie
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2015; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group; Ashgate
• Edition: 1
• Series: The cultural politics of media and popular culture
• Subjects: Cultural Studies; Disability Studies - Sociology; Health & Illness; Health & Society; People with disabilities in mass media; Popular Culture; Social Class; Disabled Athletes; critical; Young Man; Van Hilvoorde; S1 E1; Mike Power; inspiration; girls; porn; Push Girls; Reality Tv; Disability Reading; Spreadable Media; friday; studies; Inspiration Porn; lights; GI Joe; Breaking Bad; Disability Sports; Disabled Feminists; night; Million Dollar Baby; Critical Disability Studies; Friday Night Lights; push; Spinal Research; BPA; Disability Imagery; Documentary Film Murderball; Bionic Woman; Feminist Blogosphere; lady; Beauty Myth; Pop Star
• ISBN: 9781472411785; 1472411781; 9780367669003; 0367669005
• DOI: 10.4324/9781315577326

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 popular culture can focus passion, create community and express defiance in the context of disability and social change.