1st Edition
The Fantasy of Disability Images of Loss in Popular Culture
By Jeffrey Preston
Copyright 2017
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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What are the unconscious fantasies circulating in representations of disability? What role do these fantasies play in defining the condition of disability? What can these fantasies teach us about human vulnerability writ large?
The Fantasy of Disability explores how popular culture texts, such as Degrassi: The Next Generation and Glee , fantasize about what life with a physical... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Considering the Literature
3. Corporeal Casualties: Vietnam War Film and the Fantasy of Disability
4. Fantasizing Disablement in Degrassi: The Next Generation
5. Dream On: Fantasies of (dis)ability in Glee
6. Conclusion
Biography
Jeffrey Preston is a professor in the Lawrence Kinlin School of Business at Fanshawe College in Canada.
