Disability Representation in Film, TV, and Print Media (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Jeffress, Michael S.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Using sources from a wide variety of print and digital media, this book discusses the need for ample and healthy portrayals of disability and neurodiversity in the media, as the primary way that most people learn about conditions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000435078
• Artikelnr.: 62155379

Autorenporträt

Michael S. Jeffress (PhD, Regent University) is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been involved in disability advocacy work since the late-1990s, after his son was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. He is a past recipient of the Top Paper Award from the Disability Issues Caucus of the National Communication Association. He is the author of Communication, Sport and Disability: The Case of Power Soccer (2015) and editor of Pedagogy, Disability and Communication: Applying Disability Studies in the Classroom (2017) and International Perspectives on Teaching with Disability: Overcoming Obstacles and Enriching Lives (2018), all in Routledge's Interdisciplinary Disability Studies Series.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. Parasocial contact effects and a disabled actor in
Speechless. 2. Women with disability: Sex object and supercrip stereotyping
on reality television's Push Girls. 3. A critical examination of the
intersection of sexuality and disability in Special, a Netflix series. 4.
Euphemistic processes on the MDA Show of Strength Telethon, 2012-2014: The
Post-Jerry Lewis years. 5. Hegemonic constructions and corporeal deviance
in portrayals of physically disabled women characters on Saturday Night
Live. 6. Inspiring people or perpetuating stereotypes?: The complicated
case of disability as inspiration. 7. The patronized supercrip: A textual
analysis of The Peanut Butter Falcon. 8. How Silence Rhetorically
Constructs Deafness in A Quiet Place: The Silent Treatment. 9. The
communication of disability through children's media: Potential, problems,
and potential problems. 10. Discursive representations of disability in
children's picture books on disabled parents. 11. An interrogation of
select Indian literary works through disability discourse: Loud yet
unheard. 12. Abuse and/as disability in Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's
Dirty River: How to speak without words. 13. Media, culture, and news
framing of disability in Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper.