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Published on: 2005-04-13
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In the past decade, the mass media discovered disability. Spurred by the box-office appeal of superstars such as the late Christopher Reeve, Michael J. Fox, Stephen Hawking, and others, and given momentum by the success of Oscar-winning movies, popular television shows, best-selling books, and profitable websites, major media corporations have reversed their earlier course of hiding disability, bringing it instead to center stage.Yet depictions of disability have remained largely unchanged since the 1920s. Focusing almost exclusively on the medical aspect of injury or illness, the disability profile in fact and fiction leads inevitably to an inspiring moment of “overcoming.” According to Riley, this cliche plays well with a general audience, but such narratives, driven by prejudice and pity, highlight the importance of “fixing” the disability and rendering the “sufferer” as normal as possible. These stories are deeply offensive to persons with disabilities. Equally important, misguided coverage has adverse effects on crucial aspects of public policy, such as employment, social services, and health care. Powerful and influential, the media is complicit in this distortion of disability issues that has proven to be a factor in the economic and social repression of one in five Americans. Newspapers and magazines continue to consign disability stories to the “back of the book” health or human-interest sections, using offensive language that has long been proscribed by activists. Filmmakers compound the problem by featuring angry misfits or poignant heroes of melodramas that pair love and redemption. Publishers churn out self-help titles and memoirs that milk the disability theme for pathos. As Riley points out, all branches of the media are guilty of the same crude distillation of the story to serve their own, usually fiscal, ends.Riley’s lively inside investigation illuminates the extent of the problem while pinpointing how writers, editors, directors, producers, filmmakers, advertisers and the executives who give their marching orders go wrong, or occasionally get it right. Through a close analysis of the technical means of representation, in conjunction with the commentary of leading voices in the disability community, Riley guides future coverage to a more fair and accurate way of putting the disability story on screen or paper. He argues that with the “discovery” by Madison Avenue that the disabled community is a major consumer niche, the economic rationale for more sophisticated coverage is at hand. It is time, says Riley, to cut through the accumulated stereotypes and find an adequate vocabulary that will finally represent the disability community in all its vibrant and fascinating diversity. Technical Information Library (TIL) - Office of ... This library contains design and construction standards for the VA. Landman Library Arcadia University Landman Library supports Arcadia's mission by providing a culture of continuous learning suitable study and work space as well as appropriate services and resources ... The United States Social Security Administration You are exiting the Social Security Administration's website. SSA cannot attest to the accuracy of information provided by such websites. If we provide a link to such ... My HealtheVet Veterans Health Library A spinal tap also called lumbar puncture is used to take a sample of the fluid from the spinal column to look for infection or bleeding. The most common reasons ... Ministry business units Ministry of Health NZ Strategy and Policy Acting Chief Strategy and Policy Officer: Hamiora Bowkett. The Strategy and Policy business unit is responsible for the Ministrys advice on the ... Services Compensation Disability Rate Table for Veterans Disability Compensation. Disability compensation is a monetary benefit paid to Veterans who are determined by VA to be disabled by an injury or illness that was ... Disability organisations and websites Ministry of Health NZ This page lists disability-related organisations and service providers and some of the resources they produce. VA Software Document Library Home. Welcome to the VA Software Document Library! This web site has documentation on the various nationally released software applications created and/or used by the ... Infantilizing Autism Stevenson Disability Studies ... Abstract. When members of the public envision the disability of autism they most likely envision a child rather than an adult. In this empirically based essay ... Disability: Definitions Models Experience (Stanford ... Bibliography. Altman B. 2001 Disability Definitions Models Classification Schemes and Applications in Handbook of Disability Studies G. L. Albredht K.D ...
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