dc.contributor.advisor | Preston, Catherine | |
dc.contributor.author | Arenas Velez, Fernando | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-09-29T05:52:52Z | |
dc.date.available | 2008-09-29T05:52:52Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008-03-20 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2008 | |
dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:2381 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/4247 | |
dc.description.abstract | This dissertation examines the audiovisual representation of physical disability in a group of films produced for theatrical and television distribution. The films under study are: Prelude to Happiness (USA, 1974), Passion Fish (USA, 1992), The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro, Spain, 2004), and The Brooke Ellison Story (USA, 2004/TV). The study challenges the critique of media representations of disability as predominantly carriers of stereotypes and producers of harmful effects in the audience --a view emanating from a number of media and disability studies scholars-- with a more personal, hermeneutic approach based on the focus group methodology. It concludes with a discussion of the strategies of interpretation used by these viewers with disabilities to make sense of disability centered films, in the context of a cultural studies model of audience reception theory. | |
dc.format.extent | 258 pages | |
dc.language.iso | EN | |
dc.publisher | University of Kansas | |
dc.rights | This item is protected by copyright and unless otherwise specified the copyright of this thesis/dissertation is held by the author. | |
dc.subject | Cinema | |
dc.subject | Disability television film cinema audience reception | |
dc.title | Audience Response & Disability Representation in Four Film and Television Dramas: A Qualitative Audience Study | |
dc.type | Dissertation | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Small, Edward S | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Tibbetts, John | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Baskett, Michael | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Staples, William | |
dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | Theatre & Film | |
dc.thesis.degreeLevel | PH.D. | |
kusw.oastatus | na | |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0324-2825 | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | |