"This Isn’t Something I can Fake": the discourse of disability surrounding Glee!
This chapter critically examines narratives of disability and audience response to them in the first seasons of Glee, a popular television shows that features series regular characters with a disability. The show has prompted an online engagement from both disability activists on disability specific...
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| author | Ellis, Katie |
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| description | This chapter critically examines narratives of disability and audience response to them in the first seasons of Glee, a popular television shows that features series regular characters with a disability. The show has prompted an online engagement from both disability activists on disability specific popular culture blogs, and the general community on non disability specific sites. This chapter is a textual analysis of the programs and a content analysis of viewing practices as articulated through website forums and questions whether viewing practices and interpretations differ according to the presence of disability in the audience. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-289412017-01-30T13:08:45Z "This Isn’t Something I can Fake": the discourse of disability surrounding Glee! Ellis, Katie Marja Mogk popular television disability representation Glee disability blogs This chapter critically examines narratives of disability and audience response to them in the first seasons of Glee, a popular television shows that features series regular characters with a disability. The show has prompted an online engagement from both disability activists on disability specific popular culture blogs, and the general community on non disability specific sites. This chapter is a textual analysis of the programs and a content analysis of viewing practices as articulated through website forums and questions whether viewing practices and interpretations differ according to the presence of disability in the audience. 2013 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28941 McFarland restricted |
| spellingShingle | popular television disability representation Glee disability blogs Ellis, Katie "This Isn’t Something I can Fake": the discourse of disability surrounding Glee! |
| title | "This Isn’t Something I can Fake": the discourse of disability surrounding Glee! |
| title_full | "This Isn’t Something I can Fake": the discourse of disability surrounding Glee! |
| title_fullStr | "This Isn’t Something I can Fake": the discourse of disability surrounding Glee! |
| title_full_unstemmed | "This Isn’t Something I can Fake": the discourse of disability surrounding Glee! |
| title_short | "This Isn’t Something I can Fake": the discourse of disability surrounding Glee! |
| title_sort | "this isn’t something i can fake": the discourse of disability surrounding glee! |
| topic | popular television disability representation Glee disability blogs |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28941 |