Media, Performative Identity, and the New American Freak Show
This book traces how the American freak show has re-emerged in new visual forms in the 21st century. It explores the ways in which moving image media transmits and contextualizes, reinterprets and appropriates the freak show model into a new American freak show. It investigates how new freak representations introduce narratives about sex, gender, and cultural perceptions of people with disabilities. The chapters examine such representations found in horror films, including a prolonged look at Freaks (1932) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), documentaries such as Murderball (2005) and TLC's Push Girls (2012-present), disability pornograph…
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- ISBN: 978-3-319-66462-0
- EAN: 9783319664620
- Produktnummer: 24347309
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'157 KB
Über den Autor
Jessica L. Williams is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at SUNY College at Old Westbury, USA.
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