Momenti di contaminazione e figure della spettacolarizzazione della disabilità, tra immaginario pop e industria culturale. Il Circo Barnum, Joker e gli X-Men

Journal title SALUTE E SOCIETÀ
Author/s Massimiliano Panarari
Publishing Year 2020 Issue 2020/2 Language Italian
Pages 14 P. 30-43 File size 308 KB
DOI 10.3280/SES2020-002003
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The article aims to investigate three stages of diversity-disability’s spectacularisation in thefield of cultural and media industry. The Barnum Circus, the Joker (the Batman’santagonist) and the saga of the X-Men: three forms of cultural consumption which gothrough symbolic landscapes of modernity and postmodernity. On methodological point ofview, the article utilizes approaches coming from sociology of culture and discourseanalysis. The author would like to highlight the structural ambiguities which distinguish thedisability’s aestheticization process, trying to demonstrate that they, finally, after a long andcomplicated path, however, led to humanize and to set off the diversity.

Keywords: Imaginary; disability; cultural industry; Barnum Circus; The Joker; X-Men.

Massimiliano Panarari, Momenti di contaminazione e figure della spettacolarizzazione della disabilità, tra immaginario pop e industria culturale. Il Circo Barnum, Joker e gli X-Men in "SALUTE E SOCIETÀ" 2/2020, pp 30-43, DOI: 10.3280/SES2020-002003