series: Images of Disability. Literature, Scenic, Visual, and Virtual Arts / Imágenes de la diversidad funcional. Literatura, artes escénicas, visuales y virtuales

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Images of Disability. Literature, Scenic, Visual, and Virtual Arts / Imágenes de la diversidad funcional. Literatura, artes escénicas, visuales y virtuales

Edited by: Susanne Hartwig and Julio E. Checa Puerta

ISSN: 2569-586X

eISSN: 2943-6664

Overview
Volumes

The series constitutes a forum for the investigation of mental images and concepts as well as concrete representations of disability from a literary and cultural studies’ perspective based on media, theater and film studies. On the one hand, the word ‘images’ refers to the visibility and visualisation of stigmatised deviance and on the other to traditional and innovative ideas and concepts of disability in artistic representations in the broadest sense. The spectrum of topics ranges from analysis of traditional literary texts, theatre performances and (documentary and feature) films to virtual representations on the Internet. The series focusses on texts from the 20th and 21st centuries. However, contributions with a historical perspective are also accepted. All books are published in Spanish, German and English.

La serie constituye un foro para la investigación de imágenes mentales y representaciones concretas de la discapacidad, desde la perspectiva de los estudios literarios y de los estudios culturales, propuestas desde medios como el teatro y el cine. Las 'imágenes' se refieren a la visibilización neutra y a la visibilización de la desviación estigmatizada; así como a las ideas tradicionales e innovadoras de la discapacidad, en las formas artísticas de expresión en un sentido más amplio. El espectro de temas abarca desde análisis de textos tradicionales, teatro y películas hasta el área temática de los estudios visuales y las formas virtuales de representación en Internet. Un aspecto muy importante será la atención prestada a creaciones de los siglos XX y XXI. En todo caso, también se aceptarán contribuciones con perspectiva histórica. Los libros se publican en español, alemán e inglés.

Advisory Board / consejo científico:

Susan Antebi (University of Toronto)
Klaus Birnstiel (Universität Greifswald)
Patricia Brogna (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Matei Chihaia (Universität Wuppertal)
Antonio Gómez Ramos (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Ryan Prout (University of Cardiff)
Christian von Tschilschke (Universität Münster)
Berit Callsen (Universität Osnabrück)
Soledad Pereyra (Universität Passau)
Benjamin Fraser (University of Arizona)
Alejandro Gasel (Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral)
Johannes Görbert (Université de Fribourg)
Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice (Uniwersytet Wrocławski)
Helena Houvenaghel (Universiteit Utrecht)

The series is published at De Gruyter since 2024. La serie se publica con De Gruyter desde 2024.

Author / Editor information

Susanne Hartwig, University of Passau, Germany; Julio Enrique Checa Puerta, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.

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Normas y diferencias

La diversidad funcional y las artes escénicas, la literatura y el cine

Rafael García Pérez, David Navarro Juan, Ryan Prout, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Volume 11 in this series

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This volume offers an innovative contribution to the field of Cultural Studies. It addresses the intersection between disability and scenic, literary and audiovisual creation and examines the role that 'functional diversity' – understood as an unavoidable, transversal and multiform human reality – plays, or may come to play, in the fields of artistic theory and practice in the contemporary Spanish context.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111561462
ISBN:: 9783111561462
ISBN:: 9783111561981
ISBN:: 9783111561073
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Genres and Media in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Subject:: Film
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Society
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 21st Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Imágenes de la vejez

Diversidad funcional y envejecimiento en las artes escénicas españolas

David Conte Imbert, Alba Gómez García, Alejandra María Aventín Fontana, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Volume 10 in this series

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Age studies add the perspective of aging to the issues of inclusion and diversity, which intersect with other axes (gender, race, class, functional diversity, etc.). This volume delves into the scenic, literary and audiovisual representations of old age and aging and how they intersect with functional diversity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111561332
ISBN:: 9783111561332
ISBN:: 9783111561974
ISBN:: 9783111561295
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Genres and Media in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Film
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Aging Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 21st Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Erzählungen – Erwartungen – Erfahrungen

Der Einfluss von Darsteller*innen mit „geistiger“ Behinderung auf die Rezeption von Theateraufführungen und Spielfilmen

Susanne Hartwig, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Volume 9 in this series

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Surprising experiences with performers with intellectual disabilities can raise awareness of subliminal negative perceptions and open them to critique, e.g., in professional theater productions and films. This book examines productions and films against the backdrop of ideas of the everyday world using three analytical perspectives: narratives and expectations as meaningful contexts and experiences with disability.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111561349
ISBN:: 9783111561349
ISBN:: 9783111561868
ISBN:: 9783111561066
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Genres and Media in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Film
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Italian Literature
Subject:: 21st Century
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 21st Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Representaciones cómicas de la discapacidad

Entre inclusión y exclusión

Susanne Hartwig, Soledad Pereyra, Universität Passau

Volume 8 in this series

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This volume analyzes the ambivalence of comic representations of disability in fictional texts, films and stage performances, as well as the ambivalence of reception. It seeks to describe precisely what kind of comicality is used and what "communities of laughter" are created as a result: under what conditions does comedy turn into violence and cruelty, and liberating distancing into stigmatization and exclusion?

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111546278
ISBN:: 9783111546278
ISBN:: 9783111546209
ISBN:: 9783111546728
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Genres and Media in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Film
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature, general
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Humor Studies
Subject:: Humor and Social Sciences
Publisher:: De Gruyter