Spectacle, Performance, and the Re-Presentation of Disability and Impairment
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Keywords
audience, performance, television narratives, exclusion
Abstract
This article proposes the value of investigating audience interpretations as viewing performances to interrogate disabling discourses on popular television. In synthesising media and disability studies approaches, performances of identities are investigated, contextualizing the media as a crucial factor in forms of cultural identification, contributing to patterns of exclusion and inclusion.
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Alison Wilde, Marie Curie Research Fellow, University College of Dublin
Alison Wilde, Ph.D., is an Egalitarian World Initiative, Marie Curie Research Fellow at University College Dublin. She has recently completed a Research Fellowship at the University of York, working on the social inclusion of disabled children in primary schools, and has made arts, culture and representational concerns a focus of her writing, research and teaching over the past 17 years. She may be contacted at: [email protected]