Disability, Arts, and Culture: Methods and Approaches

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
Texts and Complexities......Page 20
Chapter 1: Pain proxies, migraine and invisible disability in Renée French’s H Day......Page 22
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......Page 44
Chapter 3: The blind gaze: Visual impairment and haptic filmmaking in João Júlio Antunes’ O jogo/The Game (2010)......Page 62
Chapter 4: What are you looking at?: Staring down notions of the disabled body in dance......Page 84
Discourse Analysis: Cultures and Difference......Page 100
Chapter 5: Troubling images? The re-presentation of disabled womanhood: Britain’s Missing Top Model......Page 102
Chapter 6: Representations of disability in Turkish television health shows: Neo-liberal articulations of family, religion and the medical approach......Page 124
Chapter 7: The portrayal of people with disabilities in Moroccan proverbs and jokes......Page 146
People’s Voices: Qualitative Methods......Page 164
Chapter 8: From awww to awe factor: UK audience meaning-making of the 2012 Paralympics as mediated spectacle......Page 166
Chapter 9: Disability in television crime drama: Transgression and access......Page 186
Chapter 10: ‘It’s really scared of disability’: Disabled comedians’ perspectives of the British television comedy industry......Page 206
Ethnographic Approaches: Project Reports......Page 224
Chapter 11: Re-voicing: Community choir participation as a medium for identity formation amongst people with learning disabilities......Page 226
Chapter 12: Dancing as a wolf: Art-based understanding of autistic spectrum condition......Page 248
Chapter 13: Disabling ability in dance: Intercultural dramaturgies of the Thikwa plus Junkan Project......Page 264
Chapter 14: Swimming with the Salamander: A community eco-performance project......Page 284
Notes on Contributors......Page 306
Back Cover......Page 310