TY - GEN digital ID - 131679390 TI - Media, Performative Identity, and the New American Freak Show PY - 2017 SN - 9783319664620 PB - Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Philosophy and psychology of culture KW - Sociology of culture KW - Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality KW - Social policy and particular groups KW - Film KW - History of civilization KW - populaire cultuur KW - cultuur KW - emancipatie KW - film KW - personen met een beperking KW - gender KW - leren KW - Amerikaanse cultuur KW - kinderen met een beperking KW - lesgeven KW - United States of America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131679390 AB - This book traces how the American freak show has re-emerged in new visual forms in the 21st century. It explores the ways in which moving image media transmits and contextualizes, reinterprets and appropriates the freak show model into a “new American freak show.” It investigates how new freak representations introduce narratives about sex, gender, and cultural perceptions of people with disabilities. The chapters examine such representations found in horror films, including a prolonged look at Freaks (1932) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), documentaries such as Murderball (2005) and TLC’s Push Girls (2012-present), disability pornography including the pornographic documentary Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan Supermasochist (1997), and the music icons Marilyn Manson and Lady Gaga in their portrayals of disability and freakishness. Through this book we learn that the visual culture that has emerged takes the place of the traditional freak show but opens new channels of interpretation and identification through its use of mediated images as well as the altered freak-norm relationship that it has fostered. In its illumination of the relationship between normal and freakish bodies through different media, this book will appeal to students and academics interested in disability studies, gender studies, film theory, critical race theory and cultural studies. . ER -