000			01841nam a22001697a 4500
008			230117b2015 |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9780367669003
082			_a305.908 ELL-K
100			_aEllis, Katie
245			_aDisability and popular culture : _bfocusing passion, creating community and expressing defiance / _cKatie Ellis
260			_aLondon _bRoutledge _c2015
300			_a201 p.
365			_aGBP _b36.99.
500			_aAs 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 from popular culture, including film, television, magazines and advertising campaigns, children’s toys, music videos, sport and online spaces, to attend to the social and cultural construction of disability. 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. Covering a broad range of concerns that lie at the intersection of disability and cultural studies, including media representation, identity, the beauty myth, aesthetics, ableism, new media and sport, this book will appeal to scholars and students interested in the critical analysis of popular culture, across disciplines such as disability studies, sociology and cultural and media studies.
650			_aPeople with disabilities in mass media
650			_aPopular culture
999			_c90411 _d90411