How Long to Read Media, Performative Identity, and the New American Freak Show

How Long Does it Take to Read Media, Performative Identity, and the New American Freak Show?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 14 minutes to read Media, Performative Identity, and the New American Freak Show by Jessica L. Williams

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book traces how the American freak show has re-emerged in new visual forms in the 21st century. 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. The chapters examine such representations found in horror films, including a prolonged look at Freaks (1932) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), documentaries such as Murderball (2005) and TLC’s Push Girls (2012-2013), disability pornography including the pornographic documentary Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan Supermasochist (1997), and the music icons Marilyn Manson and Lady Gaga in their portrayals of disability and freakishness. Through this book we learn that the visual culture that has emerged takes the place of the traditional freak show but opens new channels of interpretation and identification through its use of mediated images as well as the altered freak-norm relationship that it has fostered. In its illumination of the relationship between normal and freakish bodies through different media, this book will appeal to students and academics interested in disability studies, gender studies, film theory, critical race theory, and cultural studies.

How long is Media, Performative Identity, and the New American Freak Show?

Media, Performative Identity, and the New American Freak Show by Jessica L. Williams is 188 pages long, and a total of 48,504 words.

This makes it 63% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Media, Performative Identity, and the New American Freak Show Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 25 minutes to read Media, Performative Identity, and the New American Freak Show aloud.

What Reading Level is Media, Performative Identity, and the New American Freak Show?

Media, Performative Identity, and the New American Freak Show is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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