Disability Media Studies
New York: New York University Press (2017), viii, 433 pp.
Contains illustrations, bibliogr. pp. 379-405
ISBN 978-1-4798-4938-3 (pbk); 978-1-4798-6782-0 (hbk)
Introduction: toward a disability media studies / Elizabeth Ellcessor, Mack Hagood, and Bill Kirkpatrick, 1
I. ACCESS AND MEDIA PRODUCTION
1 Kickstarting community: disability, access, and participation in my gimpy life / Elizabeth Ellcessor, 31
2 After school special education: sex, tolerance, and rehabilitative television / Julie Passanante Elman, 52
II. DISABILITY AND RACE
3 Throw yo' voice out: disability as a desirable practice in hip-hop vocal performance / Alex S. Porco, 87
4 How to stare at your television: the ethics of consuming race and disability on Freakshow / Lori Kido Lopez, 107
III. DISABILITY AND GENDER
5 Prosthetic heroes: curing disabled veterans in Iron man 3 and beyond / Ellen Samuels, 129
6 "It's not just sexism": feminization and (ab)normalization in the commercialization of anxiety disorders / D. Travers Scott and Meagan Bates, 152
IV. DISABILITY AND CELEBRITY CULTURE
7 One of us? Disability drag and the Gaga enfreakment of fandom / Krystal Cleary, 177
8 Disability, global popular media, and injustice in the trial of Oscar Pistorius / Katie Ellis and Gerard Goggin, 197
9 Autism in translation: temple grandin as the autistic subject / Tasha Oren, 222
V. DISABILITY AND TEMPORALITY
10 How to get through the day with pain and sadness: temporality and disability in graphic novels / Shoshana Magnet and Amanda Watson, 247
11 Any day now: queerness, disability, and the trouble with homonormativity / Robert McRuer, 272
VI. DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGY
12 The price of the popular media is paid by the effluent citizen / Toby Miller, 295
13 Disability and biomediation: tinnitus as phantom disability / Mack Hagood, 311
14 "A blessed boon": radio, disability, governmentality, and the discourse of the "shut-in," 1920-1930 / Bill Kirkpatrick, 330
Afterword I: Disability in disability media studies / Rachel Adams, 357
Afterword II: Dismediation: three proposals, six tactics / Mara Mills and Jonathan Sterne, 365
I. ACCESS AND MEDIA PRODUCTION
1 Kickstarting community: disability, access, and participation in my gimpy life / Elizabeth Ellcessor, 31
2 After school special education: sex, tolerance, and rehabilitative television / Julie Passanante Elman, 52
II. DISABILITY AND RACE
3 Throw yo' voice out: disability as a desirable practice in hip-hop vocal performance / Alex S. Porco, 87
4 How to stare at your television: the ethics of consuming race and disability on Freakshow / Lori Kido Lopez, 107
III. DISABILITY AND GENDER
5 Prosthetic heroes: curing disabled veterans in Iron man 3 and beyond / Ellen Samuels, 129
6 "It's not just sexism": feminization and (ab)normalization in the commercialization of anxiety disorders / D. Travers Scott and Meagan Bates, 152
IV. DISABILITY AND CELEBRITY CULTURE
7 One of us? Disability drag and the Gaga enfreakment of fandom / Krystal Cleary, 177
8 Disability, global popular media, and injustice in the trial of Oscar Pistorius / Katie Ellis and Gerard Goggin, 197
9 Autism in translation: temple grandin as the autistic subject / Tasha Oren, 222
V. DISABILITY AND TEMPORALITY
10 How to get through the day with pain and sadness: temporality and disability in graphic novels / Shoshana Magnet and Amanda Watson, 247
11 Any day now: queerness, disability, and the trouble with homonormativity / Robert McRuer, 272
VI. DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGY
12 The price of the popular media is paid by the effluent citizen / Toby Miller, 295
13 Disability and biomediation: tinnitus as phantom disability / Mack Hagood, 311
14 "A blessed boon": radio, disability, governmentality, and the discourse of the "shut-in," 1920-1930 / Bill Kirkpatrick, 330
Afterword I: Disability in disability media studies / Rachel Adams, 357
Afterword II: Dismediation: three proposals, six tactics / Mara Mills and Jonathan Sterne, 365
