Author : Benjamin Fraser
Release : 2013
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 70X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Disability Studies and Spanish Culture by : Benjamin Fraser
Download or read book Disability Studies and Spanish Culture written by Benjamin Fraser. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disability Studies and Spanish Culture is the first book to apply the tenets of disability studies—in particular the study of mental disabilities—to Spanish cultural contexts, offering an assessment of disability as it is engaged by Spanish films, novels, comics, and other artworks. Innovatively bringing disability theory into dialogue with film and literary analysis, Benjamin Fraser shows how formal aspects of art and media in Spain highlight, frame, inform, and are informed by contemporary disability legislation there, as well as by disability advocacy, cultural perception, and social integration. By using the specific context of Spanish culture, he outlines broader shifts in social attitudes and theoretical understandings of disability.