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Disability, Obesity and Ageing

Popular Media Identifications

Gebonden Engels 2013 9781409440512
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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 online forums. Examining the symbolic power of the media, this book presents case studies from drama, situation comedies, reality and documentary television programmes popular in the UK, USA and Australia to shed light on the representation of disability, obesity and ageing, and the manner in which their status as unwanted and unwelcome identities is perpetuated. A theoretically sophisticated exploration of television as a translator of identity, and the exploration of identity categories in allied virtual spaces, this book will be of interest to sociologists, as well as scholars of popular culture, and cultural and media studies.

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Part I Television as a Social Experience; Chapter 1 Introduction: Renegotiating Disability, Obesity and Ageing; Chapter 2 Tacit Knowledge: Cultural Representations of Disability, Obesity and Ageing; Chapter 3 A Marketplace of Ideas: Television as a Social Experience; Chapter 4 Audience Activity: Identification, Disidentification and Online Activity; Part II Identifications; Chapter 5 Disability Drama; Chapter 6 Obesity Makeover: Rejecting the Obese Body; Chapter 7 Ageing Transformations: Embracing the ‘Young–Old’ Body; Chapter 8 Conclusion: Beyond the Water-Cooler – Reinforcing and Contesting the Symbolic Annihilation of Disability, Obesity and Ageing;

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