Description
Book SynopsisThis collection offers insight into different study approaches to disability art and culture practices, and asks: what does it mean to approach disability-focused cultural production and consumption as generative sites of meaning-making? International scholars and practitioners use ethnographic and participatory action research approaches; textual and discourse analysis; as well as other methods to discover how disability figures into our contemporary world(s).
Chapters within the collection explore, amongst other topics, deaf theatre productions, representations of disability on-screen, community engagement projects and disabled bodies in dance.
Disability Arts and Culture provides a comprehensive overview and a range of case studies benefitting both the practitioner and scholar.
Trade Review'The essays take an unflinching look at disability, unpacking the narratives of disability that are presented in television and other media. [...] Disability Arts and Culture shares multiple experiences of disability to challenge the single story of disability as an inferior state that must be fixed and instead, shows states of being entitled to their agency.'
-- Nicole Y. McClam, Journal of Dance Education
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Petra Kuppers
Texts and Complexities
Chapter 1: Pain proxies, migraine and invisible disability in Renée French's H Day
Susan Honeyman
Chapter 2: At the intersection of Deaf and Asian American performativity in Los Angeles: Deaf West Theatre's and East West Player's adaptations of Pippin
Stephanie Lim
Chapter 3: The blind gaze: Visual impairment and haptic filmmaking in João Júlio Antunes' O jogo/The Game (2010)
Eduardo Ledesma
Chapter 4: What are you looking at? Staring down notions of the disabled body in dance
Meghan Durham-Wall
Discourse Analysis: Cultures and Difference
Chapter 5: Troubling images? The re-presentation of disabled womanhood: Britain's Missing Top Model
Alison Wilde
Chapter 6: Representations of disability in Turkish television health shows: Neo-liberal articulations of family, religion and the medical approach
Dikmen Bezmez and Ergin Bulut
Chapter 7: The portrayal of people with disabilities in Moroccan proverbs and jokes
Gulnara Z. Karimova, Daniel A. Sauers and Firdaousse Dakka
People's Voices: Qualitative Methods
Chapter 8: From awww to awe factor: UK audience meaning-making of the 2012 Paralympics as mediated spectacle
Caroline E. M. Hodges, Richard Scullion and Daniel Jackson
Chapter 9: Disability in television crime drama: Transgression and access
Katie Ellis
Chapter 10: 'It's really scared of disability': Disabled comedians' perspectives of the British television comedy industry
Sharon Lockyer
Ethnographic Approaches: Project Reports
Chapter 11: Re-voicing: Community choir participation as a medium for identity formation amongst people with learning disabilities
Nedim Hassan
Chapter 12: Dancing as a wolf: Art-based understanding of autistic spectrum condition
Kevin Burrows
Chapter 13: Disabling ability in dance: Intercultural dramaturgies of the Thikwa plus Junkan Project
Nanako Nakajima
Chapter 14: Swimming with the Salamander: A community eco-performance project
Petra Kuppers
Notes on contributors
