Media, Performative Identity, and the New American Freak Show

Media, Performative Identity, and the New American Freak Show by Jessica L. Williams.

This book traces how the American freak show has re-emerged in new visual forms in the 21st century. It explores the ways in which moving image media transmits and contextualizes, reinterprets and appropriates the freak show model into a “new American freak show.” It investigates how new freak repre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, Jessica L. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Popular Culture.
People with disabilities.
Culture.
Gender.
Film genres.
United States—Study and teaching.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Mediated Freak Body
  • 3. Horror Movies, Horror Bodies: Blurring the Freak Body in Cinema
  • 4. Reality, Normality, Sexuality: “Authentic” Portrayals of the Freak
  • 5. Disability Pornography and the Cultural Politics of Disabled Sexuality
  • 6. Born This Way?: Disseminating Identification.

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