Using sources from a wide variety of print and digital media, this book discusses the need for ample and healthy portrayals of disability and neurodiversity in the media, as the primary way that most people learn about conditions.
It contains 13 newly written chapters drawing on representations of disability in popular culture from film, television, and print media in both the Global North and the Global South, including the United States, Canada, India, and Kenya. Although disability is often framed using a limited range of stereotypical tropes such as victims, supercrips, or suffering patients, this book shows how disability and neurodiversity are making their way into more mainstream media productions and publications with movies, television shows, and books featuring prominent and even lead characters with disabilities or neurodiversity.
Disability Representation in Film, TV, and Print Media
will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, cultural studies, film studies, gender studies, and sociology more broadly.
Using sources from a wide variety of print and digital media, this book discusses the need for ample and healthy portrayals of disability and neurodiversity in the media, as the primary way that most people learn about conditions.
Introduction.
1. Parasocial contact effects and a disabled actor in
Speechless.
2. Women with disability: Sex object and supercrip stereotyping
on reality televisions Push Girls.
3. A critical examination of the
intersection of sexuality and disability in Special, a Netflix series.
4.
Euphemistic processes on the MDA Show of Strength Telethon, 2012-2014: The
Post-Jerry Lewis years.
5. Hegemonic constructions and corporeal deviance in
portrayals of physically disabled women characters on Saturday Night Live.
6.
Inspiring people or perpetuating stereotypes?: The complicated case of
disability as inspiration.
7. The patronized supercrip: A textual analysis of
The Peanut Butter Falcon.
8. How Silence Rhetorically Constructs Deafness in
A Quiet Place: The Silent Treatment.
9. The communication of disability
through childrens media: Potential, problems, and potential problems.
10.
Discursive representations of disability in childrens picture books on
disabled parents.
11. An interrogation of select Indian literary works
through disability discourse: Loud yet unheard.
12. Abuse and/as disability
in Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinhas Dirty River: How to speak without
words.
13. Media, culture, and news framing of disability in Kenyas Daily
Nation newspaper.
Michael S. Jeffress (PhD, Regent University) is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been involved in disability advocacy work since the late-1990s, after his son was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. He is a past recipient of the Top Paper Award from the Disability Issues Caucus of the National Communication Association. He is the author of Communication, Sport and Disability: The Case of Power Soccer (2015) and editor of Pedagogy, Disability and Communication: Applying Disability Studies in the Classroom (2017) and International Perspectives on Teaching with Disability: Overcoming Obstacles and Enriching Lives (2018), all in Routledges Interdisciplinary Disability Studies Series.
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