"Disabled characters are often represented as aberrant or evil and are isolated or incarcerated. This book examines language in film and fiction that perpetuates the representation of the disabled as abnormal or problematic. The author looks at depictions of disability--both disparaging and amusing--and discusses disability theory as a framework for reconsidering "normal" and "abnormal" bodies"-- - (Baker & Taylor)

Markoti<’c> presents readers with a comprehensive examination of the depiction of disability in a wide array of literary, film, and other artistic mediums over time, arguing that these depictions reinforce an ideology of the able, or ableist ideology, that can only classify human bodies as either normal or abnormal. The book covers disability promotion and abjection in The Saddest Music in the World, the Icarus myth and mythological depictions of disability, and many other related subjects. The author is a faculty member of the University of Windsor, Ontario in Canada. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) - (Book News)

Literary and filmic depictions of the disabled reinforce an "ableist" ideology that classifies bodies as normal or abnormal--positive or negative. Disabled characters are often represented as aberrant or evil and are isolated or incarcerated. This book examines language in film, fiction and other media that perpetuates the representation of the disabled as abnormal or problematic. The author looks at depictions of disability--both disparaging and amusing--and discusses disability theory as a framework for reconsidering "normal" and "abnormal" bodies.

Literary and filmic depictions of the disabled reinforce an "ableist" ideology that classifies bodies as normal or abnormal--positive or negative. Disabled characters are often represented as aberrant or evil and are isolated or incarcerated. This book examines language in film, fiction and other media that perpetuates the representation of the disabled as abnormal or problematic. The author looks at depictions of disability--both disparaging and amusing--and discusses disability theory as a framework for reconsidering "normal" and "abnormal" bodies. - (McFarland & Co Inc Pub)

Nicole Markotic teaches Creative Writing, Children’s Literature, and Disability Studies at the University of Windsor (Ontario). She has worked as a freelance editor, was poetry editor for Red Deer Press for six years, edits the chapbook series Wrinkle Press, and is currently on the NeWest editorial board. - (Baker & Taylor)

Nicole Markotic teaches Creative Writing, Children’s Literature, and Disability Studies at the University of Windsor (Ontario). She has worked as a freelance editor, was poetry editor for Red Deer Press for six years, edits the chapbook series Wrinkle Press, and is currently on the NeWest editorial board. - (Mcfarland & Co Inc Pub)