Disability and the media : prescriptions for change / Charles A. Riley II.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Riley, Charles A., II
Language:	English
Published:	Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, [2005], ©2005.
Subjects:	People with disabilities in mass media. People with disabilities > United States.
Online Access:	Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:	xviii, 258 pages ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Heroes of assimilation : or how the media transform disability
Whose life is it anyway? : the use and abuse of the disability memoir
Getting it on paper : revising the disability story for the print media
I'd like to thank the academy : losing focus on disability in movies and television
And here's the pitch : how advertising uses disability
Milestones, mixed messages, and missed opportunities : the unfinished business of the disability media
We : the short happy life of an independent magazine
"On the Web we're all equal" and other myths about disability and multimedia.