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

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...

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Producerly Disability -- 2 Our Moment In Time: The Transitory and Concrete Value of Disability Toys -- 3 Contemporary Beauty-ism -- 4 Spaces of Cultural Mediation: The Science Fiction Cinema of the Third Stage of Disability -- 5 Among the Leading Characters on Television -- 6 Enfreaking Popular Music: Making Us Think by Making Us Feel -- 7 Controlling the Body: Sport, Disability and the Construction of Ability -- 8 Disability and Spreadable Media: Access, Representation and Inspiration Porn -- 9 Conclusion: Focusing Passion, Creating Community, Expressing Defiance -- References -- Filmography -- Index