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Disability and popular culture : focusing passion, creating community and expressing defiance / Katie Ellis, Curtin University, Australia.

By: Ellis, Katie, 1978-Material type: TextTextSeries: The cultural politics of media and popular culturePublisher: Burlington : Ashgate, 2015Description: x, 201 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472411785 (hardback : alk. paper)Subject(s): People with disabilities in mass media | Popular cultureDDC classification: 305.9/08 LOC classification: HV1568 | .E445 2015
Contents:
Introduction: producerly disability -- Our moment in time : the transitory and concrete value of disability toys -- Contemporary beauty-ism -- Spaces of cultural mediation : the science fiction cinema of the third stage of disability -- Among the leading characters on television -- Enfreaking popular music : making us think by making us feel -- Controlling the body : sport, disability and the construction of ability -- Disability and spreadable media : access, representation and inspiration porn -- Conclusion : focusing passion, creating community, expressing defiance -- References -- Filmography.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-191) and index.

Introduction: producerly disability -- Our moment in time : the transitory and concrete value of disability toys -- Contemporary beauty-ism -- Spaces of cultural mediation : the science fiction cinema of the third stage of disability -- Among the leading characters on television -- Enfreaking popular music : making us think by making us feel -- Controlling the body : sport, disability and the construction of ability -- Disability and spreadable media : access, representation and inspiration porn -- Conclusion : focusing passion, creating community, expressing defiance -- References -- Filmography.

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