Disability and popular culture : focusing passion, creating community and expressing defiance /: focusing passion, creating community and expressing defiance. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Katie Ellis, Curtin University, Australia.
• Other Names: Ellis, Katie, 1978-
• Contents: List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (212 pages)
• Subjects: 305.9/08; SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities; People with disabilities in mass media; Popular culture
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317150367; 1317150368
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