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Cosmetic Surgery
Cougar Town
cultural stigma analysis
Disability Humour
Disabled Subjectivity
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Ideal Slim Body
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marginalised identities in media
media representation studies
Mental Toughness
movement
Narrative Prosthesis
Obese Body
online
Online Audience
Online Forum Participant
Online Viewers
Positive Ageing
representations
Richard III
social identity theory
symbolic annihilation in television
television audience research
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Televisual Depictions
Televisual Representations
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virtual community discourse
Weight Loss Camp
Weight Loss Challenge
Weight Loss Journey
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Product details
- ISBN 9781409440512
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Dec 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Debbie Rodan is Senior Lecturer of Media and Cultural Studies at Edith Cowan University, Australia. She has published on televisual representations, media activist forums and political blogging, and is the author of Identity and Justice: Conflicts, Contradictions and Contingencies. Katie Ellis is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Internet Studies at Curtin University, Australia. She has published widely on disability and media, and is the author of Disabling Diversity, and co-author of Disability and New Media and Disability and the Media. Pia Lebeck tutors in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Murdoch University, Australia.
