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June 2018 Vol. 55 No. 10

Edited by Ellcessor (UVA) and Kirkpatrick (Denison), the book explores the intersection of disability and media from a variety of perspectives. An important contribution is Ellcessor’s chapter on conceptualizing access to media not only in relation to consumption but also in relation to production. Compelling are D. Travers Scott and Meagan Bates’s textual analysis of television commercials for anxiety and depression medications, Krystal Cleary’s discourse analysis of Lady Gaga’s uses of mobility aids as performance props and their reception in the online community of people with disabilities, and Katie Ellis and Gerard Goggin’s investigation of the unequal representation of disabilities in the global South through the lens of the case of Oscar Pistorius and his murder of Reeva Steenkamp. Another important chapter is Toby Miller’s discussion of the “effluent citizen” in the global South, paying particular attention to the production of disability through injury and exposure to carcinogenic materials, sexual assault, and other forms of violence for those who are involved in the manufacture and recycling of media technologies in Mexico.

--K. Sorensen, Bentley University

Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students through faculty.