Adaptations of Mental and Cognitive Disability in Popular Media

Whitney Hardin; Julia E. Kiernan

doi:10.5771/9781793648327

Summary

Examining representations of mental difference, this collection focuses on the ways that adaptations (including remakes, reboots, and other examples of remixed narratives) can shape and shift the social contexts and narratives we use to define mental disability. The movement of narratives across media via adaptation, or within media but across time and space in the case of remakes and reboots, is a common tactic for revitalization, allowing storytellers to breathe new life into tired narratives, remedying past inaccuracies and making them accessible and relevant for contemporary audiences. Thus, this collection argues that adaptation provides a useful tool for examining the constraints or opportunities different media impose on or afford narratives, or for measuring shifts in ideology as narratives move across cultures or through time. Further, narrative functions within this collection as a framework for examining the ways that popular media exerts rhetorical power, allowing for deeper understandings of the ways that mental disability is experienced by differently situated individuals, and revealing relationships with broader social narratives that attempt to push definitions of disability onto them.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4831-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4832-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 228
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
1. Adaptation No access
2. Disability No access
3. Narrative, Disability, and Adaptation No access
4. Chapter Arrangement No access
5. Works Cited No access
1. 1. RuPaul Charles No access
  2. Narrative Prosthesis and/as Identity No access
  3. Performance Accentuation and/as Media Adaptation No access
  4. Conclusion No access
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2. 1. Stimming as Evidence No access
  2. Casting Eugenics No access
  3. Shooting in Nature No access
  4. White Savior No access
  5. Conclusion No access
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3. 1. The Image of Autism in Postal No access
  2. Remaking the Image of Autism: Awareness, Authenticity, and Empathy in The Song Collector No access
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4. 1. Disability and the Generic Coordinates of Coming-of-Age No access
  2. 1. Rituals of Dating and Sites of Consumption No access
    2. Ideology of Standardization No access
    3. Displacement No access
  3. Conclusion No access
  4. Notes No access
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5. 1. Disability, Narrative, and the Superhero No access
  2. I Am Legion No access
  3. “But Can We Agree that He’s Unwell?” No access
  4. Notes No access
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6. 1. Diagnosing Moral Disability in Melodrama, Individually and Collectively No access
  2. Comprehending and Interpreting the Cues of Mental and Moral Disability, Explicitly and Implicitly No access
  3. Interpreting the Implicit Cues of Collective Moral Disability No access
  4. The Involution of Melodrama into Melodramatic Myth No access
  5. The Involution of History into Myth No access
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1. 1. Adapting Hamlet and the Feminism Problem No access
  2. The Representation and Rhetoric of Madness in Elsinore and Ophelia No access
  3. Agency, Choice, and Disability Erasure No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
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2. 1. Representations of Trauma: A Survey of Disability Studies and Comics Narratives No access
  2. 1. Making Trauma Visible No access
    2. The Visibility of Trauma’s Social Expectations No access
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4. 1. (Not So) Quiet Lives No access
  2. Mental Disability as an Apparatus No access
  3. The Guide to the Apparatus No access
  4. The Aporia of Mental Disability as the Anxiety of Influence No access
  5. Conclusion: Nervousness and Repetition No access
  6. Notes No access
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5. 1. The Telenovela as an Adapted Genre No access
  2. Updating Esmeralda: Medical Narratives and Melodrama No access
  3. Narrativizing Autism on LMP No access
  4. Conclusions: Melodrama and Its Adaptation No access
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6. 1. Telenovelas and the Ideological Construction of Disability No access
  2. Ableism, Mental Difference, and the Individual Model of Disability No access
  3. 1. The Medical Model of Disability and Autism No access
    2. Gendered Portrayals of Exceptionality No access
    3. Potentials and Limits to Alternative Representations No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Bibliography No access
Index No access Pages 221 - 224
About the Contributors No access Pages 225 - 228