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Media, Performative Identity, and the New American Freak Show (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Media, Performative Identity, and the New American Freak Show (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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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 representations introduce
narratives about sex, gender, and cultural perceptions of people
with disabilities. The chapters examine such representations found
in horror films, including a prolonged look at Freaks (1932) and
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), documentaries such as
Murderball (2005) and TLC's Push Girls (2012-2013), disability
pornography including the pornographic documentary Sick: The Life
and Death of Bob Flanagan Supermasochist (1997), and the music
icons Marilyn Manson and Lady Gaga in their portrayals of
disability and freakishness. Through this book we learn that the
visual culture that has emerged takes the place of the traditional
freak show but opens new channels of interpretation and
identification through its use of mediated images as well as the
altered freak-norm relationship that it has fostered. In its
illumination of the relationship between normal and freakish bodies
through different media, this book will appeal to students and
academics interested in disability studies, gender studies, film
theory, critical race theory, and cultural studies.
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