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Author Fraser, Benjamin, author.

Title Disability studies and Spanish culture : films, novels, the comic and the public exhibition / Benjamin Fraser
Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 192 pages)
Series Representations: health, disability, culture and society
Representations (Liverpool, England)
Contents 1. Filming Down syndrome -- Yo, también (2009) and the political project of disability studies -- Deciphering the mixed messages of León y Olvido (2004) -- 2. Envisioning autism -- Muguel Gallardo's comic María y yo (2007) -- Félix Fernándex de Castro's documentary María y yo (2010) -- 3. Narrating childhood disability -- Salvador García Jiménez's novel Angelicomio (1981) -- Màrius Serra's autobiographical novel Quieto (2008) -- 4. Documenting cognitive disability -- ¿Qué tienes debajo del sombrero? (2006) by Lola Barrera and Iñaki Peñafiel -- Más allá del espejo (2007) by Joaquín Jordà -- Epilogue : exhibiting art -- 'Trazos singulares' (2001) at the Nuevos Ministerios metro station -- 'Supergestor' (2011) and other comics by the Grupo AMÁS Associación Argadini's literary contests (2008-2010)
Summary Disability Studies and Spanish Culture is the first book to apply the tenets of Disability Studies to the Spanish context. In particular, this work is an important corrective to existing cultural studies of disability in Spain that tend to largely ignore intellectual disabilities. Taking on the representation of Down syndrome, autism, alexia/agnosia as well as childhood disability, its chapters combine close readings of a number of Spanish cultural products (films, novels, the comic/graphic novel and the public exhibition) with a broader socio-cultural take on the state of disability in Spain. While researchers and students of cinema will be particularly interested in the book's detailed analyses of the formal aspects of the films, comics, and novels discussed, readers from backgrounds in history, political science and sociology will all be able to appreciate discussions of contemporary legislation, advocacy groups, cultural perceptions, models of social integration and more
Analysis Languages
disability studies
spanish studies
Autism
Developmental disability
Intellectual disability
Spain
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
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Subject People with mental disabilities -- Spain -- Social conditions
People with mental disabilities in literature.
People with mental disabilities in motion pictures.
Popular culture -- Social aspects -- Spain
Medicine in literature.
Manners and customs.
Popular culture -- Social aspects
People with mental disabilities -- Social conditions
Mentally ill women.
Intellectual Disability -- psychology
Intellectual Disability -- ethnology
Mentally Ill Persons
Medicine in Literature
Motion Pictures as Topic
Cultural Characteristics
customs (social concepts)
mentally ill.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Society and culture: general.
Social issues and processes.
Disability: social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- People with Disabilities.
Medicine in literature
Manners and customs
People with mental disabilities in literature
People with mental disabilities in motion pictures
People with mental disabilities -- Social conditions
Popular culture -- Social aspects
SUBJECT Spain -- ethnology
Subject Spain
Genre/Form e-books.
Livres numériques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781846318702
184631870X
9781846317965
1846317967