Disability and the Media [electronic resource] : Prescriptions for Change / Charles A. Riley II.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riley, Charles A.

Series:

Disability Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities--United States.

People with disabilities.

People with disabilities in mass media.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A journalist's passionate exposé of the media's portrayal of the disabled.

Contents:

Heroes of assimilation : or how the media transform disability

Whose life is it anyway? : the use and abuse of the disability memoir

Getting it on paper : revising the disability story for the print media

I'd like to thank the academy : losing focus on disability in movies and television

And here's the pitch : how advertising uses disability

Milestones, mixed messages, and missed opportunities : the unfinished business of the disability media

We : the short happy life of an independent magazine

"On the Web we're all equal" and other myths about disability and multimedia.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-244) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61168-393-9

OCLC:

823388695