Dear poolside readers, Believe it or not, before this lazy scholar came to know the pleasures of American Studies, he was a full-fledged Anglicist (or is it Britishist?). Wordsworth, Eliot, Woolf, Forster—I would surely have carried a card if there were one. Don’t worry, I’m not crossing the pond just yet, though I am feeling [...]
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Victorian Pleasure Reading
Posted in books, circus, disability studies, leisure, pulp fiction on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Wheelchairs and Weddings
Posted in advertising, disability studies, film, television, visual culture on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To my fellow homebodies, If you, like me, have found yourself reluctantly addicted to FOX’s high school dramedy Glee, then you know that this week’s episode shined its bemused spotlight the show’s wheelchair-riding, background singing Artie Abrams. The character has raised the ire of some disability advocates because he’s played by a nondisabled actor. But what [...]
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