Adaptations of Mental and Cognitive Disability in Popular Media

This collection combines adaptation and disability studies to examine the ways that popular cultural remakes, reboots, and adaptations navigate representations of mental disability and health. The chapters analyze the ways that narratives of disability are framed not only by worldviews but also by the media which structure and inform them.

About the author

Whitney Hardin is a scholar of game studies, comic studies, new media, and civic literacies.
Julia E. Kiernan is assistant professor of communication at Lawrence Technological University.

Summary

This collection combines adaptation and disability studies to examine the ways that popular cultural remakes, reboots, and adaptations navigate representations of mental disability and health. The chapters analyze the ways that narratives of disability are framed not only by worldviews but also by the media which structure and inform them.

Product details

• Authors: Whitney Kiernan Hardin
• Assisted by: Whitney Hardin (Editor), Julia E. Kiernan (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.02.2024
• EAN: 9781793648334
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-833-4
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Remakes, Reboots, and Adaptations
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, Disability: social aspects