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The incorporeal corpse : performing disability in the liminal stage
- Title
- The incorporeal corpse : performing disability in the liminal stage / Jason B. Dorwart.
- Author
- Dorwart, Jason B., 1976-
- Publication
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2022]
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Details
- Description
- vii, 149 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Disabled characters have been written with an assumption that they would be played by nondisabled actors. In this book, Jason B. Dorwart argues that a recent influx of disabled actors into the profession is changing the way that we reconcile the reality of disability with the fictional framing of performance"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-141) and index.
- Contents
- Framing disability, disabling the frame : the permeable aesthetic distance of The cripple of Inishmaan -- Controlling disability : representations of the Elephant man -- Eliminating disability : American horror story's subtle preference for cripping up -- Reframing disability : live performance and countering the incorporeal corpse -- Reviewing disability : public taste at play with disability studies.
- Call Number
- MWET 22-4422
- ISBN
- 9781793645074
- 1793645078
- LCCN
- 2022033585
- OCLC
- 1338833774
- Author
- Dorwart, Jason B., 1976- author.
- Title
- The incorporeal corpse : performing disability in the liminal stage / Jason B. Dorwart.
- Publisher
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2022]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-141) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Dorwart, Jason B., 1976- Incorporeal corpse Lanham : Lexington Books, [2022] 9781793645081 (DLC) 2022033586
- Research Call Number
- MWET 22-4422