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Description

1. vii, 149 pages; 23 cm

Summary

1. "Disabled characters have been written with an assumption that they would be played by nondisabled actors. In this book, Jason B. Dorwart argues that a recent influx of disabled actors into the profession is changing the way that we reconcile the reality of disability with the fictional framing of performance"--

Subject

1. People with disabilities and the performing arts
2. Disabilities in the theater
3. Disabilities in motion pictures
4. Actors with disabilities

Contents

1. Framing disability, disabling the frame : the permeable aesthetic distance of The cripple of Inishmaan -- Controlling disability : representations of the Elephant man -- Eliminating disability : American horror story's subtle preference for cripping up -- Reframing disability : live performance and countering the incorporeal corpse -- Reviewing disability : public taste at play with disability studies.

Call number

1. MWET 22-4422

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-141) and index.

Author

1. Dorwart, Jason B., 1976- author.

Title

1. The incorporeal corpse : performing disability in the liminal stage / Jason B. Dorwart.

Publisher

1. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2022]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-141) and index.

Other form:

1. Online version: Dorwart, Jason B., 1976- Incorporeal corpse Lanham : Lexington Books, [2022] 9781793645081 (DLC) 2022033586

LCCN

1. 2022033585

ISBN

1. 9781793645074 (cloth)
2. 1793645078

Research call number

1. MWET 22-4422