Performing disability: impairment, disability and soap opera viewing

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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

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NameRepresenting Health

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