Disability and the Media : Prescriptions for Change

Preface ix 1. Heroes of Assimilation: Or How the Media Transform Disability 1(23) 2. Whose Life Is It Anyway? The Use and Abuse of the Disability Memoir 24(26) 3. Getting It on Paper: Revising the Disability Story for the Print Media 50(19) 4. I'd Like to Thank the Academy: Losing Focus on Disability in Movies and Television 69(40) 5. And Here's the Pitch: How Advertising Uses Disability 109(21) 6. Milestones, Mixed Messages, and Missed Opportunities: The Unfinished Business of the Disability Media 130(27) 7. WE: The Short Happy Life of an Independent Magazine 157(39) 8. "On the Web We're All Equal": And Other Myths about Disability and Multimedia 196(23) Appendix A: Guidelines for Portraying People with Disabilities in the Media 219(5) Appendix B: Guidelines for Web Accessibility 224(7) Notes 231(6) Bibliography 237(8) Index 245