Disability, obesity and ageing : popular media indentifications / Debbie Rodan, Katie Ellis and Pia Lebeck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodan, Debbie.

Contributor:

Ellis, Katie, 1978-

Lebeck, Pia.

Series:

Cultural politics of media and popular culture.

The cultural politics of media and popular culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Psychology) and mass media.

People with disabilities in mass media.

Obesity in mass media.

Older people in mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Farnham Surrey, England : Ashgate, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Disability, Obesity and Ageing offers an engaging account of a new area of pressing concern, analysing the way in which 'spurned' identities are depicted and reacted to in televisual genres and on-line forums. Examining the symbolic power of the media, this book presents case studies from reality, drama and comic television programmes popular in the UK, USA and Australia to shed light on the representation of disability, obesity, and ageing the manner in which their status as unwanted and unwelcome identities is perpetuated.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Part I Television as a Social Experience; 1 Introduction: Renegotiating Disability, Obesity and Ageing; 2 Tacit Knowledge: Cultural Representations of Disability, Obesity and Ageing; 3 A Marketplace of Ideas: Television as a Social Experience; 4 Audience Activity: Identification, Disidentification and Online Activity; Part II Identifications; 5 Disability Drama; 6 Obesity Makeover: Rejecting the Obese Body; 7 Ageing Transformations: Embracing the 'Young-Old' Body; 8 Conclusion: Beyond the Water-Cooler; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-57741-0

1-317-15010-4

1-317-15009-0

1-4094-4052-4

9781315577418

OCLC:

864713308