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Disability, Obesity and Ageing: Popular Media Identifications

By Katie Ellis , Debbie Rodan , Pia Lebeck

Book information

Publisher
Ashgate
Year
2014
ISBN
1409440516, 9781409440512
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1465666 bytes)
Series
The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
Pages
177\177
Time added
2016-03-02 03:58:10

Description

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.

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