RDS Volume 10, No. 1 & 2

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    Dissertation Abstracts
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2014) Erlen, Jonathon
    This is a list of dissertation abstracts from the field of disability studies put together by Jonathon Erlen.
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    Book Review: Shakin’ All Over: Popular Music and Disability
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2014) Brown, Steven E.
    Title: Shakin’ All Over: Popular Music and Disability Author: George McKay Reviewer: Steven E. Brown, PhD Publisher: Ann Arbor: Michigan, 2013. In Corporealities: Discourses of Disability series. Editors, David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder. Paperback: ISBN: 978-0-472-05209-7 Cost: Paperback: $37.50, 230 pages (also available in hardback and e-book)
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    Film Review: A Life Without Words
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2014) McLaughlin, Amanda
    Title: A Life Without Words Film/Video Producer: Documentary Educational Resources, Director: Adam Isenberg Name of Reviewer: Amanda McLaughlin Release Date: 2013 How to Obtain: http://www.der.org/films/life-without-words.html Cost: $24.95
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    Book Review: Writing Disability: A Critical History
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2014) Garcia, Dax
    itle: Writing Disability: A Critical History Author: Sara Newman Reviewer: Dax Garcia Publisher: Boulder, CO: FirstForumPress, www.firstforumpress.com, 2013 Hardcover: ISBN: 978-1-935049-54-8 Cost: $59.95, 203 pages
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    Book Review: The Book of Goodbyes: Poems
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2014) Cheu, Johnson
    Book: The Book of Goodbyes: Poems by Jillian Weise Reviewed by: Johnson Cheu Publication Date: Rochester, NY, BOA Editions, Ltd., 2013 Softcover: $16.00 ISBN: 1938160142, 74 pages
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    Lucky to Be Here
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2014) Ackerman, Felicia Nimue
    This is a poem in our creative works section.
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    Keep It Right - Homeland: The Female Body, Disability, and Nation
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2014) Rouleau, Joelle
    This article will look at how Homeland’s main character, Carrie Mathison, is used as a metaphor for the current cultural state of fear in the post-9/11 United States by demonstrating the effects of internalized sexism and ableism within the representation of a disabled woman’s experience in the articulation of her gender, race, disability, and sexuality.
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    Precarious Inclusions; Re-Imagining Disability, Race, Masculinity and Nation in My Name Is Khan
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2014) Kanani, Nadia
    This paper will critically examine how dominant cultural scripts about disability are reinforced and complicated in the Bollywood film, My Name is Khan (Johar, 2010). An examination of the film's themes demonstrates that My Name is Khan allows for a nuanced analysis of disability, race, masculinity and nation.
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    Body Vandalism: Lady Gaga, Disability, and Popular Culture
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2014) Smit, Christopher
    This essay investigates the employment of disability by the pop star Lady Gaga. Working through different illustrations of disability in her videos it is argued that Lady Gaga ushers in a new aesthetic and political platform on which disability can be redefined. In particular, the author argues that Lady Gaga unconsciously performs within the space of what Siebers has named a disability aesthetic in which the different bodies reformulate the expectations and desires of the art object. The context of popular culture is explained as a necessary component of this reframing.
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    The Legacy of 19th Century Popular Freak Show Discourse in the 21st Century X-Men Films
    (University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies, 2014) Pettit, Fiona
    This essay seeks to tease out the narrative similarities found in nineteenth-century freak show literature and in the X-Men films of the twenty-first century. Both of these forms of popular entertainment emphasize the precarious position of people with extraordinary bodies in their contemporary societies.