Adaptations of mental and cognitive disability in popular media. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Whitney Hardin and Julia Kiernan.
• Editors: Hardin, Whitney; Kiernan, Julia, 1980-
• Contents: Introduction <span style="font-style:italic;">Whitney Hardin & Julia E. Kiernan Part I: Imagining and Broadening Narratives of Disability Chapter One: The Prosthetic Self: Drag and Disability in the Figure of RuPaul <span style="font-style:italic;">John W. Gulledge Chapter Two: Adapting Medical Reports into Narrative Film: Autism, Eugenics, and Savagery in Truffaut’s L’Enfant sauvage (The Wild Child, 1970) <span style="font-style:italic;">Joy C. Schaefer Chapter Three: Remaking the Image of Autism: Why and How Comics Should Reboot Autistic Representation <span style="font-style:italic;">Robert Rozema Chapter Four: An Atypical Interaction with a Typical World: Viewing Coming-of-Age through the Lens of Disability Studies in Robia Rashid’s Atypical <span style="font-style:italic;">Anamika Purohit Chapter Five: “But can we agree that he’s unwell?”: Narrative Resistance in Legion’s Approach to Mental Disability <span style="font-style:italic;">Julia E. Kiernan Chapter Six: Diagnosing Mental and Moral Disability in Post 9/11 Popular American Film Narrative <span style="font-style:italic;">Carol Donelan Part II: Renegotiating and Resisting Narratives of Disability Chapter Seven: “A document in madness”? Disability Erasure in Contemporary Rewrites of Ophelia <span style="font-style:italic;">Lindsay Adams Chapter Eight: “You’re all about ‘crazy’”: Rendering the Visibility of Trauma in Alias and Jessica Jones <span style="font-style:italic;">Whitney Hardin Chapter Nine: Subspaces Run Through Your Head: Scott Pilgrim, Intertextuality, and Visualizing the Traumatized Mind <span style="font-style:italic;">William Guy Spriggs Chapter Ten: Minding the Gap: Adaptation of and Mental Disability in Quiet Life (1990, 1995) <span style="font-style:italic;">Rea Amit Chapter Eleven: Adapting Autism in Telenovelas: Venevisión’s La Mujer Perfecta and the Trace of Esmeralda <span style="font-style:italic;">Martín Ponti Chapter Twelve: Female Representations of Autism and Disability in Telenovelas: La Mujer Perfecta <span style="font-style:italic;">Andrea Urrutia Gómez Index About the Contributors
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 305.9084; Cognition disorders in mass media; People with disabilities in mass media; Popular culture
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781793648327
• Related ISBNs: 9781793648310
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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