In his 1991 study, Paul Hunt identified 10 stereotypes that the media use to portray disabled people:
- The disabled person as pitiable or pathetic
- An object of curiosity or violence
- Sinister or evil
- The super cripple
- As atmosphere
- Laughable
- His/her own worst enemy
- As a burden
- As Non-sexual
- Being unable to participate in daily life
Jessica evans (1998) drawing on the words of Freud and other psychoanalysis, statues:
"Disable people are seen as childish, dependant and underdeveloped and are regrading as 'other' and are punished by being excluded from ordinary life. Thus popular images and rhetoric of disabled people abound which comfort us with people who are imperfect, helpless, unattractive, disgusting, shitty, dribbling.
As Cumberbatch and Nergrine (1992), Barnes (1992) and Longmore (1987):
point out studies of the representation show that disabled people are screened out of television fiction or else occur in a limited number of roles.
As Jordanova stated in in 1989. " the idea of otherness is complicated, but certain themes are common: the treatment of others as more like an object, something to be managed and possessed and as dangerous, wild, threatening. at the same time, the other becomes and entity whose very separateness inspires curiosity, invites inquiring knowledge.
Medhurst argued in terms of power relations and the constructions of stereotypes; "they are awful because they are not like us"
it is seriously worth nothing that theory concerning disability can be applied to the elderly with ease. according to evans (1998):
"Old people in our culture are also segregated and treated as though they are waiting to die. there are close associations between dependency, illness, dying and eat. it seems that increasingly in our culture there are pressures that encourage a reversion to infantile feelings which have to be madly defended against"
Good notes, well done.
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