Disability, Arts, and Culture: Methods and Approaches

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This collection offers insight into different study approaches to disability art and culture practices, and asks: what does it mean to approach disability-focused cultural production and consumption as generative sites of meaning-making? International scholars and practitioners use ethnographic and participatory action research approaches; textual and discourse analysis; as well as other methods to discover how disability figures into our contemporary world(s). Chapters within the collection explore, amongst other topics, deaf theatre productions, representations of disability on-screen, community engagement projects and disabled bodies in dance. Disability Arts and Culture provides a comprehensive overview and a range of case studies benefitting both the practitioner and scholar. Petra Kuppers is professor of english and women’s studies at University of Michigan, Ann Arbour. Petra is a well-respected figure in the field of Performance Arts, in particular feminist and disabled theatre, and is a Faculty Fellow at the National Council for Institutional Diversity. She is the author of Theatre and Disability. Cover......Page 1 Half Title......Page 2 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Introduction......Page 8 Texts and Complexities......Page 20 Chapter 1: Pain proxies, migraine and invisible disability in Renée French’s H Day......Page 22 Chapter 2: At the intersection of Deaf and Asian American performativity in Los Angeles: Deaf West Theatre’s and East West Players’ adaptations of Pippin......Page 44 Chapter 3: The blind gaze: Visual impairment and haptic filmmaking in João Júlio Antunes’ O jogo/The Game (2010)......Page 62 Chapter 4: What are you looking at?: Staring down notions of the disabled body in dance......Page 84 Discourse Analysis: Cultures and Difference......Page 100 Chapter 5: Troubling images? The re-presentation of disabled womanhood: Britain’s Missing Top Model......Page 102 Chapter 6: Representations of disability in Turkish television health shows: Neo-liberal articulations of family, religion and the medical approach......Page 124 Chapter 7: The portrayal of people with disabilities in Moroccan proverbs and jokes......Page 146 People’s Voices: Qualitative Methods......Page 164 Chapter 8: From awww to awe factor: UK audience meaning-making of the 2012 Paralympics as mediated spectacle......Page 166 Chapter 9: Disability in television crime drama: Transgression and access......Page 186 Chapter 10: ‘It’s really scared of disability’: Disabled comedians’ perspectives of the British television comedy industry......Page 206 Ethnographic Approaches: Project Reports......Page 224 Chapter 11: Re-voicing: Community choir participation as a medium for identity formation amongst people with learning disabilities......Page 226 Chapter 12: Dancing as a wolf: Art-based understanding of autistic spectrum condition......Page 248 Chapter 13: Disabling ability in dance: Intercultural dramaturgies of the Thikwa plus Junkan Project......Page 264 Chapter 14: Swimming with the Salamander: A community eco-performance project......Page 284 Notes on Contributors......Page 306 Back Cover......Page 310