[PDF] The Image Of Disability eBook

Author : JL Schatz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 2018-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1476632995

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A mainstay of modern life, the global media gives out information about disabilities that is often inaccurate or negative and perpetuates oppressive stigmas and discrimination. In response to representations that have been incomplete, misguided or unimaginative, this collection of new essays encourages scholars and allies to refashion media so as to disrupt the status quo and move toward more liberatory politics. Images in film, television and social media are assessed through the lenses of disabilities studies, media studies, cultural studies and intersectional studies involving critical race theory and gender.

Author : Robert Bogdan
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 18,62 MB
Release : 2012-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0815651929

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Bogdan and his collaborators have studied thousands of historical photographs of people with disabilities in writing this book. Their work shows how people with disabilities have been presented but in a much wider range than we have ever seen before.

Author : Jeffrey Preston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 26,88 MB
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317032020

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What are the unconscious fantasies circulating in representations of disability? What role do these fantasies play in defining the condition of disability? What can these fantasies teach us about human vulnerability writ large? The Fantasy of Disability explores how popular culture texts, such as Degrassi: The Next Generation and Glee, fantasize about what life with a physical disability must be like, while at the same time exerting tremendous pressure on disabled individuals to conform their identity and behaviour to fit within the margins of these societally perpetuated archetypes. Rather than merely engaging with how disability is represented, though, this text investigates how representations of disability reveal their nondisabled producers to be perpetually anxious subjects, doomed to fear not just the disabled subject but the very reality of disability lurking within. Situated at the nexus of disability studies, media studies and psychology, this text presents an innovative way of analyzing representations of disability in popular culture, inverting the psychoanalytic gaze back upon the nondisabled to investigate how disability can become a lens through which to interrogate the normate subject.

Author : JL Schatz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,40 MB
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1476669457

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A mainstay of modern life, the global media gives out information about disabilities that is often inaccurate or negative and perpetuates oppressive stigmas and discrimination. In response to representations that have been incomplete, misguided or unimaginative, this collection of new essays encourages scholars and allies to refashion media so as to disrupt the status quo and move toward more liberatory politics. Images in film, television and social media are assessed through the lenses of disabilities studies, media studies, cultural studies and intersectional studies involving critical race theory and gender.

Author : Christopher R. Smit
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,33 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN :

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Films include: The hunchback of Notre Dame (various versions based on the novel `Notre Dame de Paris' by Victor Hugo), Freaks (directed by Tod Browning), Ordinary people, Smoke (Wayne Wang), the films of John Woo, Crash (David Cronenberg).

Author : Alice Wong
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 36,9 MB
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1984899422

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“Disability rights activist Alice Wong brings tough conversations to the forefront of society with this anthology. It sheds light on the experience of life as an individual with disabilities, as told by none other than authors with these life experiences. It's an eye-opening collection that readers will revisit time and time again.” —Chicago Tribune One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, From Harriet McBryde Johnson’s account of her debate with Peter Singer over her own personhood to original pieces by authors like Keah Brown and Haben Girma; from blog posts, manifestos, and eulogies to Congressional testimonies, and beyond: this anthology gives a glimpse into the rich complexity of the disabled experience, highlighting the passions, talents, and everyday lives of this community. It invites readers to question their own understandings. It celebrates and documents disability culture in the now. It looks to the future and the past with hope and love.

Author : Robert M. Baird
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 2008-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1615926143

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What is it like to experience disability? What are the prevailing cultural attitudes toward those who experience disability? How do social norms and public policies affect those experiencing disability? This book provides a vivid and concrete introduction to the wealth of social, political and ethical debates that surround the experience of disability.Beginning with an exploration of the perspective of persons with disabilities, the essays demonstrate the extent to which the disability experience is affected by social and cultural values, attitudes, and policies. In addition to these first-person reflections, there are essays relating to such issues as: -The disability rights movement-Disability studies-Social policy relating to disabilityPhysician-assisted suicide, genetic testing, selective abortion, the moral status of handicapped newborns, and living and dying with dignityWritten in an engaging style with a focus on the concrete, this collection of essays includes contributions by John Hockenberry, Oiver Sacks, Peter Singer, and others. It is a marvelous resource for enabling the reader to comprehend the experience of disability and to explore contemporary issues involving the disability community

Author : Maddie Blackburn
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann Medical
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 15,30 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780750622523

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This text aims to increase awareness and knowledge of the issues concerning disability and sexuality. It addresses important topics and emphasises physical problems and their associated psychological consequences.

Author : Jay Dolmage
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 18,35 MB
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 047205371X

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Places notions of disability at the center of higher education and argues that inclusiveness allows for a better education for everyone