MeCCSA Disability Studies Network
Currents in the Mainstream - Where are we going?
22nd September, De Montfort University
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Disability images of the1980s and 1990s have received significant critical
attention, but there has been little work to date on its development in the
2000s, especially in relation to new or changing representations of
disability and the impacts of new media and changes in production, distribution
and reception. This day conference aims to re-visit and re-evaluate the complex
issues at stake in contemporary representations of disability and impairment
from a variety of critical perspectives, investigating both continuities and
new trends in representing disability. We encourage submissions (papers or otherwise) which examine how representation
work is encouraged or circumscribed by questions of disability identity,
funding, distribution and audiences. The conference will also reflect on the
relationship between disability art and and new disability imagery
Topics may include:
- disabled performers, directors and media workers
- mainstream film with disability themes
- mainstream television with disability themes
- disabled people in media industries
- the politicisation of disability images
- post- disability' genres
- disability and comedy
- disabled people and Reality TV/ documentary
- gender, sexuality, ethnicity, the body
Proposals of approximately 200 words for a 20-30 minute presentation
should be sent to the organisers, [log in to unmask], or [log in to unmask] by
the first call deadline of 12th July.
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