Produkt
KlappentextIt explores the ways in which moving image media transmits and contextualizes, reinterprets and appropriates, the freak show model into a new American freak show. It investigates how new freak representations introduce narratives about sex, gender, and cultural perceptions of people with disabilities.
Zusammenfassung
Explores the history of the freak show and how it was transformed through the emergence of media and explores the ways in which moving image media transmits and contextualizes, reinterprets, and appropriates the freak show model into a new American freak show
Focuses on what changes in viewing mean, and why and how the viewer stares at freakish bodies through specific media including film, television, and live performance
Examines such representations as found in horror films, including a prolonged look at Freaks (1932) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), documentaries such as Murderball (2005) and TLC s Push Girls (2012-2013), disability pornography including the pornographic documentary Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan Supermasochist (1997), and the music icons Marilyn Manson and Lady Gaga in their portrayals of disability and freakishness
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Explores the history of the freak show and how it was transformed through the emergence of media and explores the ways in which moving image media transmits and contextualizes, reinterprets, and appropriates the freak show model into a new American freak show
Focuses on what changes in viewing mean, and why and how the viewer stares at freakish bodies through specific media including film, television, and live performance
Examines such representations as found in horror films, including a prolonged look at Freaks (1932) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), documentaries such as Murderball (2005) and TLC s Push Girls (2012-2013), disability pornography including the pornographic documentary Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan Supermasochist (1997), and the music icons Marilyn Manson and Lady Gaga in their portrayals of disability and freakishness
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-319-88250-5
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2018
Erscheinungsdatum15.08.2018
AuflageSoftcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Seiten188 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht268 g
IllustrationenXII, 188 p. 20 illus., 16 illus. in color.
Artikel-Nr.46144692
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