Images of Disability on Television (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Cumberbatch, Guy; Negrine, Ralph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 103237604X ISBN 13: 9781032376042

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

First published in 1992, Images of Disability on Television examines the frequency and nature of disability on British and American television and how it is perceived and presented by programme makers. Attitudes held by those closest to the issues – disabled people, their carers, and television producers and writers – are presented as the result of interviews and discussions. There is an increasingly strong sentiment that television has got it wrong as far as disability is concerned and does not play its proper role in allowing the non-disabled to understand fully the world of disabled people. This book provides information to promote greater understanding of the needs of the disabled people in television portrayal and opens up possibilities for a change in attitudes. It will be valuable reading for students, researchers and lecturers in the social sciences, communication studies, and media studies.

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Guy Cumberbatch and Ralph Negrine

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 103237604X
• ISBN 13: 9781032376042
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 194