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First Tiller Press hardcover edition |
Descript |
xi, 273 pages 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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"A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else"-- Provided by publisher |
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With partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and sight, hearing and deafness. While she cannot see well enough to operate without a guide dog or cane, she can see enough to know when someone is reacting to the visible signs of her blindness and can hear when they're whispering behind her back. As a media studies professor, she has also seen the full range of blind and deaf portrayals on film. Here she deconstructs their impact, following common tropes through horror, romance, and everything in between. In doing so, she explores how our cultural concept of disability is more myth than fact-- and the damage it does to us all. -- adapted from jacket |
Subject |
Sjunneson, Elsa, 1985-
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Dövblinda personer
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Personer med funktionsnedsättning
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Personer med funktionsnedsättning -- attityder till
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Deafblind people.
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Deafblind women.
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Discrimination against people with disabilities.
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People with disabilities.
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People with disabilities in mass media.
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United States.
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Biografier
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Självbiografier
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Classmark |
362.4/1092
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ISBN/ISSN |
9781982152376 hardcover |
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1982152370 hardcover |
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9781982152413 |
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electronic book 9781982152413 |
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