Jessica L. Williams

Media, Performative Identity, and the New American Freak Show (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the history of the freak show and how it was transformed through the emergence of media

Focuses on what changes in viewing mean, and why and how the viewer stares at freakish bodies through specific media including film, television, and live performance

Explores bodies which would have been considered freaks of nature-a person who was born with their physical anomaly or who obtained it through an accident, such as bearded ladies, people missing limbs, and conjoined twins-as well as cultural freaks-a person whose anomaly was obtained by choice, such as heavily tattooed and pierced people, sword swallowers, and other novelty acts

Raises questions about representation and authenticity in its exploration of mediated bodies across horror film to reality television, disability pornography to the mediatization of popular musicians' bodies

Analyzes the relationship between viewer and the figure of "the freak" to reveal the cultural organization of different bodies in contemporary society

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319664620
• Artikelnr.: 53062437

Autorenporträt

Jessica L. Williams is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at SUNY College at Old Westbury, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

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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