Disability, Obesity and Ageing: Popular Media Identifications
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 d...
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| author | Rodan, D. Ellis, Katie Lebeck, P. |
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| 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 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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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-365512017-01-30T13:56:26Z Disability, Obesity and Ageing: Popular Media Identifications Rodan, D. Ellis, Katie Lebeck, P. C.Richard King and Online Television Forums Ageing Televisual Representation Obesity Disability 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. 2014 Book http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36551 Ashgate Publishing Limited restricted |
| spellingShingle | and Online Television Forums Ageing Televisual Representation Obesity Disability Rodan, D. Ellis, Katie Lebeck, P. Disability, Obesity and Ageing: Popular Media Identifications |
| title | Disability, Obesity and Ageing: Popular Media Identifications |
| title_full | Disability, Obesity and Ageing: Popular Media Identifications |
| title_fullStr | Disability, Obesity and Ageing: Popular Media Identifications |
| title_full_unstemmed | Disability, Obesity and Ageing: Popular Media Identifications |
| title_short | Disability, Obesity and Ageing: Popular Media Identifications |
| title_sort | disability, obesity and ageing: popular media identifications |
| topic | and Online Television Forums Ageing Televisual Representation Obesity Disability |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36551 |