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Introduction: toward a disability media studies / Elizabeth Ellcessor, Mack Hagood, and Bill Kirkpatrick -- Access and media production -- Kickstarting community : disability, access, and participation in my gimpy life / Elizabeth Ellcessor -- After school special education : sex, tolerance, and rehabilitative television / Julie Passanante Elman -- Disability and race -- Throw yo' voice out : disability as a desirable practice in hip-hop vocal performance / Alex S. Porco -- How to stare at your television : the ethics of consuming race and disability on / Freakshow, Lori Kido Lopez -- Disability and gender -- Prosthetic heroes : curing disabled veterans in Iron man 3 and beyond / Ellen Samuels -- "It's not just sexism" : feminization and (ab)normalization in the commercialization of anxiety disorders / D. Travers Scott and Meagan Bates -- Disability and celebrity culture -- One of us? : disability drag and the Gaga enfreakment of fandom / Krystal Cleary -- Disability, global popular media, and injustice in the trial of Oscar Pistorius / Katie Ellis and Gerard Goggin -- Autism in translation : temple grandin as the autistic subject / Tasha Oren -- Disability and temporality -- How to get through the day with pain and sadness : temporality and disability in graphic novels / Shoshana Magnet and Amanda Watson -- Any day now : queerness, disability, and the trouble with homonormativity / Robert McRuer -- Disability and technology -- The price of the popular media is paid by the effluent citizen / Toby Miller -- Disability and biomediation : tinnitus as phantom disability / Mack Hagood -- "A blessed boon" : radio, disability, governmentality, and the discourse of the "shut-in," 1920-1930 / Bill Kirkpatrick -- Afterwords -- Afterword I: Disability in disability media studies / Rachel Adams -- Afterword II: Dismediation: three proposals, six tactics / Mara Mills and Jonathan Sterne -- Bibliography -- Contributors

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapters by Topic (Medium) -- Introduction -- 1. Kickstarting Community -- 2. After School Special Education -- 3. Throw Yo' Voice Out -- 4. How to Stare at Your Television -- 5. Prosthetic Heroes -- 6. "It's Not Just Sexism" -- 7. One of Us? -- 8. Disability, Global Popular Media, and Injustice in the Trial of Oscar Pistorius -- 9. Autism in Translation -- 10. How to Get through the Day with Pain and Sadness -- 11. Any Day Now -- 12. The Price of the Popular Media Is Paid by the Effluent Citizen -- 13. Disability and Biomediation -- 14. "A Blessed Boon" -- 15. Afterword I -- 16. Afterword II -- Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index