1st Edition
Critical Perspectives on Disability Representation and Inclusion in Media
Lists of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Editor’s Preface by Michael S. Jeffress
List of abbreviations
Section I: Disability in Media: Television and Film Perspectives
Chapter 1: A Street for Everyone: Sesame Street’s Pioneering Commitment to Educating Children with Disabilities through Inclusive Television Programming and Educational Advocacy
Willow S. Sauermilch
Chapter 2: Moving Away from Rain Man: Fictional Representation of Autism in Contemporary Audiovisual Media in the U.S.
Ashley R. Kennard
Chapter 3: “Whale, Whale!” (Re)framing and (Dis)abling an Albino Villain in Black Lightning
Niya Pickett Miller
Chapter 4: The Incompatibility of Disability in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Daniel Preston and Craig A. Meyer
Chapter 5: Disability Representation in Love on the Spectrum and Its Impact on Audience
Perceptions
Sandra J. Romo
Chapter 6: Disability in Advertising: A Case Study of Super Bowl Advertisements between 2020 and 2024
Nisha Sridharan and Juan Mundel
Chapter 7: Emerging Trends in Mediated Depictions of d/Deafness in Narrative Film from 2014-2024
Tahleen A. Lattimer
Chapter 8: Representation that Gets Rewarded: Disability Portrayals in Academy Award Recognized Films
Lisa V. Chewning
Section II: Disability in Media: Online Perspectives
Chapter 9: Rolling Over the Line: A Qualitative Analysis of Joe Eurell's Naturally Lazy
Benjamin Brojakowski, Anna L. Sinclair and Giovanna Scott
Chapter 10: Deconstructing Digital Discourses: Critical Disability Studies Analysis of Social Media Posts by Parents of Autistic Children
Kathleen McGoldrick, Sharon Cuff and Deborah Zelizer
Chapter 11: Trolls and Allies: A Qualitative Analysis of the Comment Sections of Instagram
Influencers in Interabled Relationships
Terra J. Ryan and Emily Stones
Section III: Disability in Media: International Perspectives
Chapter 12: Deaf, Not Silent: Sound and Savagery in Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi’s The Tribe
[ПЛЕМ’Я]
Olga Tchepikova-Treon
Chapter 13: Address an absence: To know, understand and co-construct digital access in Italy
Fabiana Battisti
Chapter 14: A Critical Examination of Disability-Inclusive Advertisements in Hyundai’s Samarth Campaign
Shikha Sourav and Swati Sourav
Chapter 15: The Representation of Disability in Contemporary Japanese Novels and the Possibility of a Post-Narrative Prosthesis: A Textual Analysis of Reader Reviews
Kai Seino and Kiyoko Uchiyama
Index
Biography
Michael S. Jeffress is a full professor at Medical University of the Americas in Nevis, West Indies. He has been involved in disability advocacy work since the late- 1990s, after his son was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Critical Perspectives on Disability Representation and Inclusion in Media is his fourth edited volume in Routledge’s Interdisciplinary Disability Studies Series, in addition to his monograph Communication, Sport and Disability: The Case of Power Soccer published in 2015.
