Main description:

Uses sources from a wide variety of print and digital media to show how disability and neurodiversity is represented. Will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, cultural studies, film studies, gender studies and sociology more broadly. Includes 16 newly written chapters with contributions from both the global north and the global south including the USA; Canada; India and Kenya.

Contents:

Introduction. 1. Parasocial contact effects and a disabled actor in Speechless. 2. Women with disability: Sex object and supercrip stereotyping on reality television's Push Girls. 3. A critical examination of the intersection of sexuality and disability in Special, a Netflix series. 4. Euphemistic processes on the MDA Show of Strength Telethon, 2012-2014: The Post-Jerry Lewis years. 5. Hegemonic constructions and corporeal deviance in portrayals of physically disabled women characters on Saturday Night Live. 6. Inspiring people or perpetuating stereotypes?: The complicated case of disability as inspiration. 7. The patronized supercrip: A textual analysis of The Peanut Butter Falcon. 8. How Silence Rhetorically Constructs Deafness in A Quiet Place: The Silent Treatment. 9. The communication of disability through children's media: Potential, problems, and potential problems. 10. Discursive representations of disability in children's picture books on disabled parents. 11. An interrogation of select Indian literary works through disability discourse: Loud yet unheard. 12. Abuse and/as disability in Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's Dirty River: How to speak without words. 13. Media, culture, and news framing of disability in Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper.