Disabled People Transforming Media Culture for a More Inclusive World

This book tells the stories of disabled people who have been influential in creating modern mass media.

Sommario

Introduction
Chapter 1: Collaborating on set to disrupt narrative prosthesis
Chapter 2: Talking the Talk of Real Disabled People's Lives

Chapter 4: Performers illustrate the Affirmative Model by taking control on scripted series for Web and streaming
Chapter 5: Disability as superpower: Comics, graphic novels, and music
Chapter 6: "Giving everything they have:" Documentaries illuminate disability experiences
Chapter 7: Becoming visible: People with nonvisible disabilities crafting media content

Info autore

Beth A. Haller, Ph.D., has been researching mass media content about the disability community since the early 1990s. She developed some of the first university courses in the U.S. and Canada focused on disability in the media, for undergraduate and graduate Disability Studies programs at Towson University in Maryland, the City University of New York (CUNY), York University in Toronto, Canada, and the University of Texas-Arlington. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 Routledge Companion to Disability and Media (with Gerard Goggin of the University of Sydney and Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is currently co-founder/co-director of the international nonprofit organization, the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment. She is a retired Professor Emerita in the Mass Communication department at Towson University. She identifies as a neurodiverse person with multiple disabilities/chronic illnesses.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Beth A. Haller, Beth A. (Towson University Haller
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 27.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032112589
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3211258-9
• Pagine: 232
• Serie: Routledge Research in Disability and Media Studies
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Teatro, balletto; History, Music, Sociology, Popular Culture, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Anthropology, Films, cinema, Personal & public health, Humanities, Communication Studies, Disability: social aspects, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Media, Information & Communication Industries, Personal and public health / health education