{"product_id":"disability-studies-and-spanish-culture-films-novels-the-comic-and-the-public-exhibition-9781846318702","title":"Disability Studies and Spanish Culture: Films,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDisability Studies and Spanish Culture\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to apply the tenets of Disability Studies to the Spanish context. In particular, this work is an important corrective to existing cultural studies of disability in Spain that tend to largely ignore intellectual disabilities. Taking on the representation of Down syndrome, autism, alexia\/agnosia as well as childhood disability, its chapters combine close readings of a number of Spanish cultural products (films, novels, the comic\/graphic novel and the public exhibition) with a broader socio-cultural take on the state of disability in Spain. Fraser is just as comfortable with the work of disability theorists who advocate a social model of disability (such as Lennard J. Davis, Licia Carlson, Eva Feder Kittay, David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder and more) as he is with the analysis of film and literature in the Spanish context. While researchers and students of cinema will be particularly interested in the book’s detailed analyses of the formal aspects of the films, comics, and novels discussed, readers from backgrounds in history, political science and sociology will all be able to appreciate discussions of contemporary legislation, advocacy groups, cultural perceptions, models of social integration and more. The book is directed, also, toward those readers more familiar with the growing field of Disability Studies itself—making the argument that the specific case of Spanish culture and society speaks to shifts in the social attitudes and theoretical understandings of disability more broadly considered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The first of its kind, Fraser’s highly engaging book breaks new ground in the fields of disability studies and Spanish literary and cultural studies, while opening a vital space of dialogue between these disciplines. The author’s rigorous attention to Spanish disability politics allows him to elaborate lucid analyses of literature, film, comics and other media.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eSusan Antebi, University of Toronto\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Professor Fraser’s stimulating analysis of representative contemporary Spanish artistic works from the perspective of Disability Studies is groundbreaking research – a pioneering model in a largely unexplored field of scholarship.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eEncarnación Juárez-Almendros\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1 Filming Down Syndrome\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYo, también (2009) and the Political Project of Disability Studies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeciphering the Mixed Messages of León y Olvido (2004)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2 Envisioning Autism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMiguel Gallardo’s Comic María y yo (2007)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFélix Fernández de Castro’s Documentary María y yo (2010)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3 Narrating Childhood Disability\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSalvador García Jiménez’s Novel Angelicomio (1981)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMàrius Serra’s Autobiographical Novel Quieto (2008)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4 Documenting Cognitive Disability\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e¿Qué tienes debajo del sombrero? (2006), by Lola Barrera and Iñaki Peñafiel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMás allá del espejo (2007), by Joaquín Jordà\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpilogue: Exhibiting Art\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e‘Trazos Singulares’ (2011) at the Nuevos Ministerios Metro Station\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e‘Supergestor’ (2011) and Other Comics by the Grupo AMÁS\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAssociación Argadini’s Literary Contests (2008–2010)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReferences\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51360208814423,"sku":"9781846318702","price":45.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781846318702.jpg?v=1754126990","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/disability-studies-and-spanish-culture-films-novels-the-comic-and-the-public-exhibition-9781846318702","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}