Project Ing Human Representations Of Disability In Science Fiction

Author : Courtney Stanton
Publisher : Series in Critical Media Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 164889285X

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Project(ing) Human by Courtney Stanton Pdf

This edited volume examines representations of disability within popular science fiction, using examples from television, film, literature, and gaming to explore how the genre of science fiction shapes cultural understanding of disability experience. Science fiction texts typically grapple with concepts such as transhumanism, embodiment, and autonomy more directly than do those of other genres. In doing so, they raise significant questions about the experience of disability. More broadly, they often convey the place of disability in not only the future but also the world of today. Through critical research, the chapters within this interdisciplinary collection explore what science fiction texts convey about the value of disability, whether it be through disabled characters, biotechnologies, or, more broadly, conceptions of an idealized future. Chapters are grouped thematically and include discussions of the intersections of disability with other identity groups, the interplay of disability and market/capitalist value, and how disability shapes current and future definitions of human-ness, agency, and autonomy. This full volume builds on current research regarding the relationship of disability studies to the science fiction genre by exploring new themes and contemporary media to aid as an instructional tool for scholars in fields of disability studies, science fiction literature, and media studies.

Author : Courtney Stanton
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781648896927

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Project(ing) Human: Representations of Disability in Science Fiction by Courtney Stanton Pdf

This edited volume examines representations of disability within popular science fiction, using examples from television, film, literature, and gaming to explore how the genre of science fiction shapes cultural understanding of disability experience. Science fiction texts typically grapple with concepts such as transhumanism, embodiment, and autonomy more directly than do those of other genres. In doing so, they raise significant questions about the experience of disability. More broadly, they often convey the place of disability in not only the future but also the world of today. Through critical research, the chapters within this interdisciplinary collection explore what science fiction texts convey about the value of disability, whether it be through disabled characters, biotechnologies, or, more broadly, conceptions of an idealized future. Chapters are grouped thematically and include discussions of the intersections of disability with other identity groups, the interplay of disability and market/capitalist value, and how disability shapes current and future definitions of human-ness, agency, and autonomy. This full volume builds on current research regarding the relationship of disability studies to the science fiction genre by exploring new themes and contemporary media to aid as an instructional tool for scholars in fields of disability studies, science fiction literature, and media studies.

Author : K. Allan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781137343437

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Disability in Science Fiction by K. Allan Pdf

In this groundbreaking collection, twelve international scholars – with backgrounds in disability studies, English and world literature, classics, and history – discuss the representation of dis/ability, medical "cures," technology, and the body in science fiction.

Author : Anne McCaffrey
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780425287118

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The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey Pdf

Helva had been born human, but only her brain had been saved—saved to be schooled, programmed, and implanted into the sleek titanium body of an intergalactic scout ship. But first she had to choose a human partner—male or female—to share her exhilirating excapades in space! Her life was to be rich and rewarding . . . resplendent with daring adventures and endless excitement, beyond the wildest dreams of mere mortals. Gifted with the voice of an angel and being virtually indestructable, Helva XH-834 antipitated a sublime immortality. Then one day she fell in love!

Author : Djibril al-Ayad,Kathryn Allan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : People with disabilities
ISBN : 9780957397545

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Accessing the Future by Djibril al-Ayad,Kathryn Allan Pdf

The fifteen authors and nine artists in this volume bring us beautiful, speculative stories of disability and mental illness in the future. Teeming with space pirates, battle robots, interstellar travel and genetically engineered creatures, every story and image is a quality, crafted work of science fiction in its own right, as thrilling and fascinating as it is worthy and important. These are stories about people with disabilities in all of their complexity and diversity, that scream with passion and intensity. These are stories that refuse to go gently.

Author : Marja Evelyn Mogk
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780786465354

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Different Bodies by Marja Evelyn Mogk Pdf

This collection of 19 new essays by 21 authors from the United States, the UK, Canada, Australia and India focuses on contemporary film and television (1989 to the present) from those countries as well as from China, Korea, Thailand and France. The essays are divided into two parts. The first includes critical readings of narrative film and television. The second includes contributions on documentaries, biopics and autobiographically-informed films. The book as a whole is designed to be accessible to readers new to disability studies while also contributing significantly to the field. An introduction gives background on disability studies and appendices provide a filmography and a list of suggested reading.

Author : Ria Cheyne
Publisher : Representations: Health, Disability, Culture and Society
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : Disabilities in literature
ISBN : 9781789620771

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Disability, Literature, Genre by Ria Cheyne Pdf

Examining the intersection of disability and genre in popular works of horror, crime, science fiction, fantasy, and romance published since the late 1960s, Disability, Literature, Genre is a major contribution to both cultural disability studies and genre fiction studies. Drawing on recent work on affect and emotion, the book explores how disability makes us feel, and how those feelings shape interpersonal and fictional encounters. Written in a clear and accessible style, Disability, Literature, Genre offers a timely reflection on the rapidly growing body of scholarship on disability representation, as well as an innovative new theorisation of genre. By reconceptualising genre reading as an affective process, Ria Cheyne establishes genre fiction as a key site of investigation for disability studies. She argues that genre fiction's unique combination of affectivity and reflexivity makes it ideally suited to the production of reflexive representations of disability: representations which encourage the reader to reflect upon what they understand about disability, and potentially to rethink it. Examining the affective--and effective--power of disability representations in a wide range of popular genre fiction, this book will be essential reading for academics in disability studies, literary studies, popular culture studies, and the medical humanities.

Author : Colin Barnes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Handicapped
ISBN : 1853310425

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Disabling Imagery and the Media by Colin Barnes Pdf

Author : Leila Fielding
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783656293569

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Disability and Culture: The usefulness of Davis’ argument about the relationship between the concept of normalcy and cultural production by Leila Fielding Pdf

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: 1:1 (First Class), , language: English, abstract: Disability is a natural part of the human condition. Almost everyone you cross paths with will possess some form of deviance from the socially enforced ideological norm, whether or not they choose to let this be apparent. Every person will, at some point, experience some form of impairment or disability during their lives; be it brought on by disease, depression, old age, injury or deterioration. “Disabilities are less the property of persons than they are moments in a cultural focus. Everyone in any culture is subject to being labelled and disabled.” Yet, despite the temporality of ability, disability is still marginalised, distorted and concealed within mainstream culture. Types and categories of disability are extensive, escalating and erratic. It is therefore absurd that society clings to the notion of normalcy like an anxious child clutching its mother’s hand. People are disabled by culture, as well as by society. Depending on how difference is perceived and acknowledged, people can be enabled or disabled by those around them. Disabilities are therefore manufactured by society and represented by culture.

Author : Sami Schalk
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822371830

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Bodyminds Reimagined by Sami Schalk Pdf

In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds—the intertwinement of the mental and the physical—in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates that this genre's political potential lies in the authors' creation of bodyminds that transcend reality's limitations. She reads (dis)ability in neo-slave narratives by Octavia Butler (Kindred) and Phyllis Alesia Perry (Stigmata) not only as representing the literal injuries suffered under slavery, but also as a metaphor for the legacy of racial violence. The fantasy worlds in works by N. K. Jemisin, Shawntelle Madison, and Nalo Hopkinson—where werewolves have obsessive-compulsive-disorder and blind demons can see magic—destabilize social categories and definitions of the human, calling into question the very nature of identity. In these texts, as well as in Butler’s Parable series, able-mindedness and able-bodiedness are socially constructed and upheld through racial and gendered norms. Outlining (dis)ability's centrality to speculative fiction, Schalk shows how these works open new social possibilities while changing conceptualizations of identity and oppression through nonrealist contexts.

Author : K. Allan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781137343437

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Disability in Science Fiction by K. Allan Pdf

In this groundbreaking collection, twelve international scholars – with backgrounds in disability studies, English and world literature, classics, and history – discuss the representation of dis/ability, medical "cures," technology, and the body in science fiction.

Author : William Alexander,Rachel Swirsky,Jennifer Brozek,A.T. Greenblatt,A. Merc Rustad,Katharine Duckett,Nisi Shawl,Fran Wilde,Marissa Lingen
Publisher : Uncanny Magazine
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Uncanny Magazine Issue 24 by William Alexander,Rachel Swirsky,Jennifer Brozek,A.T. Greenblatt,A. Merc Rustad,Katharine Duckett,Nisi Shawl,Fran Wilde,Marissa Lingen Pdf

The September/October 2018 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Our Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction Special Issue! Guest edited by Dominik Parisen and Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Nicolette Barischoff, S. Qioyi Lu, and Judith Tarr. Featuring new fiction by William Alexander, Rachel Swirsky, Jennifer Brozek, A.T. Greenblatt, A. Merc Rustad, Katharine Duckett, Nisi Shawl, Stu West, P.H. Lee, Fran Wilde, and Marissa Lingen, essays by Andi C. Buchanan, Fran Wilde, Zaynab Shahar, John Wiswell, A.J. Hackwith, Ira Gladkova, Gemma Noon, teri.zin, and Marieke Nijkamp, and poetry by Rita Chen, Rose Lemberg, Genevieve DeGuzman, Robin M. Eames, Sarah Gailey, Alicia Cole, Khairani Barokka, Bogi Takács, and Julia Watts Belser, interviews with Rachel Swirsky and Marissa Lingen by Sandra Odell, a cover by Likhain, and an editorial by Dominik Parisien and Elsa Sjunneson-Henry.

Author : Sharon Packer MD,Jody Pennington
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313397714

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A History of Evil in Popular Culture by Sharon Packer MD,Jody Pennington Pdf

Evil isn't simply an abstract theological or philosophical talking point. In our society, the idea of evil feeds entertainment, manifests in all sorts of media, and is a root concept in our collective psyche. This accessible and appealing book examines what evil means to us. Evil has been with us since the Garden of Eden, when Eve unleashed evil by biting the apple. Outside of theology, evil remains a highly relevant concept in contemporary times: evil villains in films and literature make these stories entertaining; our criminal justice system decides the fate of convicted criminals based on the determination of their status as "evil" or "insane." This book examines the many manifestations of "evil" in modern media, making it clear how this idea pervades nearly all aspects of life and helping us to reconsider some of the notions about evil that pop culture perpetuates and promotes. Covering screen media such as film, television, and video games; print media that include novels and poetry; visual media like art and comics; music; and political polemics, the essays in this book address an eclectic range of topics. The diverse authors include Americans who left the United States during the Vietnam War era, conservative Christian political pundits, rock musicians, classical linguists, Disney fans, scholars of American slavery, and experts on Holocaust literature and films. From portrayals of evil in the television shows The Wire and 24 to the violent lyrics of the rap duo Insane Clown Posse to the storylines of the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter books, readers will find themselves rethinking what evil is—and how they came to hold their beliefs.

Author : Benjamin Fraser
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231850964

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Cultures of Representation by Benjamin Fraser Pdf

Cultures of Representation is the first book to explore the cinematic portrayal of disability in films from across the globe. Contributors explore classic and recent works from Belgium, France, Germany, India, Italy, Iran, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, Senegal, and Spain, along with a pair of globally resonant Anglophone films. Anchored by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder's coauthored essay on global disability-film festivals, the volume's content spans from 1950 to today, addressing socially disabling forces rendered visible in the representation of physical, developmental, cognitive, and psychiatric disabilities. Essays emphasize well-known global figures, directors, and industries – from Temple Grandin to Pedro Almodóvar, from Akira Kurosawa to Bollywood – while also shining a light on films from less frequently studied cultural locations such as those portrayed in the Iranian and Korean New Waves. Whether covering postwar Italy, postcolonial Senegal, or twenty-first century Russia, the essays in this volume will appeal to scholars, undergraduates, and general readers alike.

Author : Tobin Siebers
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472050390

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Disability Theory by Tobin Siebers Pdf

Boldly rethinks theoretical questions of the last thirty years from the vantage point of disability studies