Performing disability: impairment, disability and soap opera viewing

Alison Wilde

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    Abstract

    Does television have any influence; does it matter what people watch?(Silverstone, 1994, p. 132) Although disability has seldom been a focus of cultural and media studies criticism, the disabled people's movement has campaigned for more 'positive 'portrayals in the media …
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationRepresenting health
    Subtitle of host publicationdiscourses of health and illness in the media
    EditorsMartin King, Katherine Watson
    Place of PublicationBasingstoke
    PublisherMacmillan Education UK
    Pages66-88
    Number of pages23
    ISBN (Electronic)9780230802483
    ISBN (Print)9780333997871
    Publication statusPublished - 2005

    Publication series

    NameRepresenting Health

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