Disability, the Media and the Paralympic Games

ISBN-13: 9780367434458 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 220 str.

Carolyn Jackson-Brown

Opis

This book focuses on the ground-breaking coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic Games by the UK’s publicly-owned but commercially-funded Channel 4 network, coverage which seemed to deliver a transformational shift in attitudes towards people with disabilities.

Spis treści

1. Introduction,  2. Spectacles of Otherness: Media, sports and disability dilemmas,  3. Riskier Representations: Channel 4’s public service broadcast model,  4. Normalising Disability: Mega-event media parity for the ‘superhuman’ supercrips,  5. Reframing Meanings: Encoding disability across multiple TV programme formats,  6. Marketing Parasports: Media, cultural production, and branded authenticity,  7. Conclusion

O autorze

Carolyn Jackson-Brown is Senior Lecturer in Journalism & Sports Journalism at Leeds Trinity University, UK. Her research focuses on media production and representations of difference.