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For viewers who experience autism, bipolar disorder, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder or other cognitive variations, television storytelling offers opportunities to empathize with characters portraying neurodiversity. In this first collection of its kind, contributors analyze television's increasing attempts to make thought--how individuals process the world around them--visible.
Examined themes include the muting of neurodiverse voices, madness as power, diagnosis vs. lived experience, dual diagnosis, reactions to "atypical" behaviors, the cultivation of attitudes towards autistic individuals, and translanguaging across global series. Programs include Young Sheldon, The Good Doctor, Legion, the Star Trek universe, Euphoria, True Detective, Girls, Bungo Stray Dogs, and Love on the Spectrum. Varied theoretical and methodological approaches and attention to the quality and verisimilitude of neurodiverse representations result in an appropriately complex analysis.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Curt Hersey and Julie D. O'Reilly
Section One: Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Schizophrenia, Substance Use Disorder, and Synesthesia
Enhanced Senses, Constrained Voices: Analyzing the Television Portrayal of Synesthetes Through Muted Group Theory
Julie D. O'Reilly and Dimitria Electra Gatzia
Superpsychos in the Asylum: Superheroes Through the Lens of Mad Studies
Ivy Roberts
A Not So "Classical Presentation": Girls and the Lived Experiences of Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior
Ajitpaul Mangat
Say the Words! An Analysis of Neurodiversity as Portrayed in Bungo Stray Dogs
Ariel Mickey
Fatalism versus Hope: Dual Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder and Substance Use Disorder in Shameless and Euphoria
Curt Hersey
Section Two: Autism Spectrum Disorder
From Savants and Stereotypes to Representation and Inclusion: The Evolving Representations of Autism on Television
Jill Wurm
"I'm not insane, my mother had me tested": Examining Reactions to Atypical Behaviors in Young Sheldon
Aubrie Adams, Mackenzie Demay, Scott Collier, and Abigail Dorman
Reality, Romance, and Social Support in Netflix's Love on the Spectrum
Michael Robert Dennis and Adrianne Kunkel
Not Quite Utopia: Autism and Neurodivergence in Star Trek
Juli L. Gittinger
Same Story, Different Culture: Speech Styles and Translanguaging of a Neurodivergent Speaker in The Good Doctor
Vance Schaefer and Tamara Warhol
From Parenthood to The Good Doctor: The Development of Representations of Autism on American Television
Veronika Vargová
About the Contributors
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Curt Hersey is an associate professor and chair of the communication department at Berry College in Rome, Georgia. He has published articles in the Journal of Film and Video and the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.Julie D. O'Reilly is a professor of communication and gender studies at Heidelberg University in Tiffin, Ohio. She has published articles in the Journal of American Culture and Clues: A Journal of Detection.
