SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Guillermo Del Toro, Kylie Jenner, Peter Dinklage
Document Summary
Disability in popular culture: disability has always been present in pop culture, popular culture as a site of meaning making about disability, social media has changed the processes of meaning making, participatory culture, collective intelligence, spreadable media. Inclusion and representation: spectacle, attempts at authenticity, exclusion, of disability, of disabled people. Inclusion and representation: the wizard of oz, under the rainbow, making meaning of a disabled body as an object, 9% of the little people are involved in the media. Complexity of peter dinklage: plays roles where achondroplasia is one aspect of his character, challenges stereotypes and spectacles, subjected to stereotype and spectacles, overcoming narrative (a site of inspiration story, meritocracy, little structural change (de-politicization) Exclusion of disability: national ballet of canada, disability and difference isn"t present; the height of canadian culture, dancing on wheels, a much more representative image; accurate representation the world (rare, having disability dance/art.
