This research investigated what people with disabilities think about media representations of
their community and how mass media impact their disability identity. The study found that …

Cult Cinema: an Introduction presents the first in-depth academic examination of all aspects
of the field of cult cinema, including audiences, genres, and theoretical perspectives …

The canon of popular cinema has long been rife with fantastic tales, yet critical studies have
too often expediently mixed the fantasy genre with its kindred science fiction and horror films …

In Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s author David Roche takes up the
assumption shared by many fans and scholars that original horror movies are more" …

Over the last few decades disability studies has emerged not only as a discipline in itself but
also as a catalyst for cultural disability studies and Disability Studies in Education. In this …

Argues that representational correctness can cause critics to miss the positive work that films
and television shows can perform in reducing prejudice. Representational correctness …

The article explores the anti-humanist trends in popular culture by comparing the horror film"
Freaks" by Tod Browning released in 1932 to the motion picture" Gummo" made in 1997 by …

Beginning with Erving Goffman’ s ground-breaking 1963 book Stigma: Notes on the
Management of Spoiled Identity — a masterful examination of the nature of stigma as a …

Monstrous textuality emerges when Gothic narratives like Frankenstein reflect the monstrous
in their narrative structure to create narratives of resistance. It allows writers to meta …

In society today it is considered wrong to use or believe truth in stereotypes in regards to
ones race, sex or religion; however, a majority of society is unaware of the constant …