Disability in TV drama - The Street

Disability in TV drama

Task:

Produce a written exploration of disability in TV drama and post this to your blog.

Your written piece should include, but is not limited to, discussion of:

• Disability stereotypes and their countertypes
• How disability is presented in TV drama through the 4 areas of textual analysis
• How disability links to the other 6 areas of representation (positively and negatively)
• Examples from TV dramas to support your points (including pictures)

Secret Diary of a Call Girl - representation of disability

Task

• Analyse this clip looking at how disability is represented
• Embed the clip into your blog along with your written analysis
• Include the 4 areas of textual analysis
• Include the theories of Paul Hunt

Representation of disability

Paul hunt disability from Sarah Ghost

The Inbetweeners - disability in media

• Why is the clip funny?
• How is the disabled girl being represented?
• Are we meant to laugh at the disabled person?
• Are they the 'butt' of the joke?
• How do you think disabled people respond to this?
• Are we as a society cultivated to think we should pity the disabled?