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 repre...

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Main Author: Williams, Jessica L.
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spelling oai:112.137.131.14:VNU_123-922912020-10-14T03:56:25Z Media, performative identity, and the new American freak show Williams, Jessica L. Freak shows--United States ; Mass media and culture--United States ; Truyền thông đại chúng ; Truyền thông văn hóa ; Chương trình truyền hình ; Truyền hình cho người khiếm khuyết 791.1 WIL 2017 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 pornography including the pornographic documentary Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan Supermasochist (1997), and the music icons Marilyn Manson and Lady Gaga in their portrayals of disability and freakishness. Through this book we learn that the visual culture that has emerged takes the place of the traditional freak show but opens new channels of interpretation and identification through its use of mediated images as well as the altered freak-norm relationship that it has fostered. In its illumination of the relationship between normal and freakish bodies through different media, this book will appeal to students and academics interested in disability studies, gender studies, film theory, critical race theory and cultural studies 2020-08-26T09:25:11Z 2020-08-26T09:25:11Z 2017 Book http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/92291 en © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 195 p. application/pdf Palgrave Macmillan
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topic Freak shows--United States ; Mass media and culture--United States ; Truyền thông đại chúng ; Truyền thông văn hóa ; Chương trình truyền hình ; Truyền hình cho người khiếm khuyết
791.1 WIL 2017
spellingShingle Freak shows--United States ; Mass media and culture--United States ; Truyền thông đại chúng ; Truyền thông văn hóa ; Chương trình truyền hình ; Truyền hình cho người khiếm khuyết
791.1 WIL 2017
Williams, Jessica L.
Media, performative identity, and the new American freak show
description 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 pornography including the pornographic documentary Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan Supermasochist (1997), and the music icons Marilyn Manson and Lady Gaga in their portrayals of disability and freakishness. Through this book we learn that the visual culture that has emerged takes the place of the traditional freak show but opens new channels of interpretation and identification through its use of mediated images as well as the altered freak-norm relationship that it has fostered. In its illumination of the relationship between normal and freakish bodies through different media, this book will appeal to students and academics interested in disability studies, gender studies, film theory, critical race theory and cultural studies
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title Media, performative identity, and the new American freak show
title_short Media, performative identity, and the new American freak show
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publisher Palgrave Macmillan
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