{"product_id":"adaptations-of-mental-and-cognitive-disability-in-popular-media-9781793648310","title":"Adaptations of Mental and Cognitive Disability in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamining representations of mental difference, this collection focuses on the ways that adaptations (including remakes, reboots, and other examples of remixed narratives) can shape and shift the social contexts and narratives we use to define mental disability. The movement of narratives across media in adaptation, or within media but across time and space in the case of remakes and reboots, is a common tactic for revitalization, allowing storytellers to breathe new life into tired narratives, remedying past inaccuracies and making them accessible and relevant for contemporary audiences. Thus, this collection argues that adaptation provides a useful tool for examining the constraints or opportunities different media impose on or afford narratives, or for measuring shifts in ideology as narratives move across cultures or through time. Further, narrative functions within this collection as a framework for examining the ways that popular media exerts rhetorical power, allowing for deeper understandings of the ways that mental disability is experienced by differently situated individuals, and revealing relationships with broader social narratives that attempt to push definitions of disability onto them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhitney Hardin \u0026amp; Julia E. Kiernan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Imagining and Broadening Narratives of Disability\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One: The Prosthetic Self: Drag and Disability in the Figure of RuPaul\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn W. Gulledge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Two: Adapting Medical Reports into Narrative Film: Autism, Eugenics, and Savagery in Truffaut’s L’Enfant sauvage (The Wild Child, 1970)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoy C. Schaefer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Three: Remaking the Image of Autism: Why and How Comics Should Reboot Autistic Representation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Rozema\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Four: An Atypical Interaction with a Typical World: Viewing Coming-of-Age through the Lens of Disability Studies in Robia Rashid’s Atypical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnamika Purohit\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Five: “But can we agree that he’s unwell?”: Narrative Resistance in Legion’s Approach to Mental Disability\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulia E. Kiernan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Six: Diagnosing Mental and Moral Disability in Post 9\/11 Popular American Film Narrative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarol Donelan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Renegotiating and Resisting Narratives of Disability\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Seven: “A document in madness”? Disability Erasure in Contemporary Rewrites of Ophelia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLindsay Adams\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eight: “You’re all about ‘crazy’”: Rendering the Visibility of Trauma in Alias and Jessica Jones\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhitney Hardin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Nine: Subspaces Run Through Your Head: Scott Pilgrim, Intertextuality, and Visualizing the Traumatized Mind\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Guy Spriggs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Ten: Minding the Gap: Adaptation of and Mental Disability in Quiet Life (1990, 1995)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRea Amit \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eleven: Adapting Autism in Telenovelas: Venevisión’s La Mujer Perfecta and the Trace of Esmeralda\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartín Ponti\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Twelve: Female Representations of Autism and Disability in Telenovelas: La Mujer Perfecta\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrea Urrutia Gómez\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042690761047,"sku":"9781793648310","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793648310.jpg?v=1750955198","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/adaptations-of-mental-and-cognitive-disability-in-popular-media-9781793648310","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}