Media, Performative Identity, and the New American Freak Show

It explores the ways in which moving image media transmits and contextualizes, reinterprets and appropriates, the freak show model into a "new American freak show." It investigates how new freak representations introduce narratives about sex, gender, and cultural perceptions of people with disabilities.

Acesta exploreaza modurile in care mediile de imagine in miscare transmit si contextualizeaza, reinterpreteaza si insusesc modelul spectacolului ciudat intr-un „nou spectacol ciudat american”. Cerceteaza modul in care noile reprezentari ciudate introduc naratiuni despre sex, gen si perceptii culturale ale persoanelor cu dizabilitati.