Disability and the Media: Prescriptions for Change

by Charles A. Riley II and Charles A. Riley

Book Overview

In the past decade, the mass media discovered disability. Spurred by the box-office appeal of superstars such as the late Christopher Reeve, Michael J. Fox, Stephen Hawking, and others, and given momentum by the success of Oscar-winning movies, popular television shows, best-selling books, and profitable websites, major media corporations have reversed their earlier course of hiding disability, bringing it instead to center stage. Yet depictions of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584654732
• ISBN13: 9781584654735
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: University Press of New England
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.1"