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Disability, obesity and ageing : popular media identifications / by Debbie Rodan, Katie Ellis and Pia Lebeck.

Title
  1. Disability, obesity and ageing : popular media identifications / by Debbie Rodan, Katie Ellis and Pia Lebeck.
Published by
  1. Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2014]
Author
  1. Rodan, Debbie.

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Additional authors
  1. Ellis, Katie, 1978-
  2. Lebeck, Pia
Description
  1. viii, 168 pages; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. The cultural politics of media and popular culture
Subject
  1. Identity (Psychology) and mass media
  2. Obesity in mass media
  3. Older people in mass media
  4. People with disabilities in mass media
Contents
  1. Machine generated contents note: pt. I TELEVISION AS A SOCIAL EXPERIENCE -- 1. Introduction: Renegotiating Disability, Obesity and Ageing -- 2. Tacit Knowledge: Cultural Representations of Disability, Obesity and Ageing -- 3. Marketplace of Ideas: Television as a Social Experience -- 4. Audience Activity: Identification, Disidentification and Online Activity -- pt. II IDENTIFICATIONS -- 5. Disability Drama -- 6. Obesity Makeover: Rejecting the Obese Body -- 7. Ageing Transformations: Embracing the `Young-Old' Body -- 8. Conclusion: Beyond the Water-Cooler -- Reinforcing and Contesting the Symbolic Annihilation of Disability, Obesity and Ageing.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-159) and index.
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