Disability Duplicity and the Formative Cultural Identity Politics of Generation X

ISBN-13: 9781032553979 / Miękka / 2023 / 144 str.

UK) Bolt David (Liverpool Hope University

Opis

Disability is history and futurity, culture and society, practice and theory, work and play, an immense desire for life by which body and mind are dragged kicking and screaming into each and every new day.

Spis treści

0.Prologue.  1.Toy Man: Figuring Out the Play Figure.  2.Mr Moral: Animating the Ordinary via the Extraordinary.  3. Made in Misterland: Rain and Shine on the Identity Parade.  4.Comic Priming: To Read and Subscribe.  5.Power and Palaver: Medicalisation of the Funny Film Franchise.  6.Happy Hill: Teenage Television and the Half-Hour Antihero.  7.No Futurity: Non-normative Affinities with the Punk Rock Movement.  8.Anarchy in the Comedy: A Complete and Utter Alternative.  9.Epilogue.

O autorze

David Bolt is Professor of Disability Studies and Interdisciplinarity at Liverpool Hope University, where he is Director of the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies and the Disability Studies MA. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies and his work has been internationally recognised in education, the humanities, and the social sciences.