Disability Arts and Culture : Methods and Approaches.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Texts and Complexities -- Chapter 1: Pain proxies, migraine and invisible disability in Renée French's H Day -- Chapter 2: At the intersection of Deaf and Asian American performativity in Los Angeles: Deaf West Theatre's and East West Players' adaptations of Pippin -- Chapter 3: The blind gaze: Visual impairment and haptic filmmaking in João Júlio Antunes' O jogo/The Game (2010) -- Chapter 4: What are you looking at?: Staring down notions of the disabled body in dance -- Discourse Analysis: Cultures and Difference -- Chapter 5: Troubling images? The re-presentation of disabled womanhood: Britain's Missing Top Model -- Chapter 6: Representations of disability in Turkish television health shows: Neo-liberal articulations of family, religion and the medical approach -- Chapter 7: The portrayal of people with disabilities in Moroccan proverbs and jokes -- People's Voices: Qualitative Methods -- Chapter 8: From awww to awe factor: UK audience meaning-making of the 2012 Paralympics as mediated spectacle -- Chapter 9: Disability in television crime drama: Transgression and access -- Chapter 10: 'It's really scared of disability': Disabled comedians' perspectives of the British television comedy industry -- Ethnographic Approaches: Project Reports -- Chapter 11: Re-voicing: Community choir participation as a medium for identity formation amongst people with learning disabilities -- Chapter 12: Dancing as a wolf: Art-based understanding of autistic spectrum condition -- Chapter 13: Disabling ability in dance: Intercultural dramaturgies of the Thikwa plus Junkan Project -- Chapter 14: Swimming with the Salamander: A community eco-performance project -- Notes on Contributors -- Back Cover.

What does it mean to approach disability-focused cultural production and consumption as generative sites of meaning-making? Disability Arts and Culture: Methods and Approaches seeks the answer to this question and more in an exploration of disability studies within the arts and beyond.

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