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Disability, obesity and ageing : popular media identifications / by Debbie Rodan, Katie Ellis and Pia Lebeck.

Title
Disability, obesity and ageing : popular media identifications / by Debbie Rodan, Katie Ellis and Pia Lebeck.
Author
Rodan, Debbie.
Publication
Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2014]

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Additional Authors
  • Ellis, Katie, 1978-
  • Lebeck, Pia
Description
viii, 168 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
The cultural politics of media and popular culture
Subject
  • Identity (Psychology) and mass media
  • Obesity in mass media
  • Older people in mass media
  • People with disabilities in mass media
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-159) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. I TELEVISION AS A SOCIAL EXPERIENCE -- 1. Introduction: Renegotiating Disability, Obesity and Ageing -- 2. Tacit Knowledge: Cultural Representations of Disability, Obesity and Ageing -- 3. Marketplace of Ideas: Television as a Social Experience -- 4. Audience Activity: Identification, Disidentification and Online Activity -- pt. II IDENTIFICATIONS -- 5. Disability Drama -- 6. Obesity Makeover: Rejecting the Obese Body -- 7. Ageing Transformations: Embracing the `Young-Old' Body -- 8. Conclusion: Beyond the Water-Cooler -- Reinforcing and Contesting the Symbolic Annihilation of Disability, Obesity and Ageing.
ISBN
  • 9781409440512 (hardback)
  • 1409440516 (hardback)
  • 9781409440529 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781472403810 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2013026900
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