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Horror and Disability: Representations of Disability in Twenty-First-Century Film and Television

Horror and Disability: Representations of Disability in Twenty-First-Century Film and Television

Gray, Darren

Hardcover

Series: Horror Studies

TelevisionFilm Studies

PREORDER - Expected ship date December 20, 2026

ISBN10: 1837724237
ISBN13: 9781837724239
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: Dec 20 2026
Pages: 200
Weight: 1.00
Language: English

The first comprehensive study to explore disability within twenty-first-century horror films and television.

Using critical theories along with disability and cultural studies, this book examines how horror depicts bodies with mobility impairments, blindness, deafness, neurodiversity, illness, aging, and physical differences, showing how these characteristics are portrayed as monstrous, vulnerable, empowered, or resistant. Moving away from traditional Gothic and freak-show legacies that presented disabled bodies as spectacles or monstrosities for entertainment, this book centers on contemporary screen horror to highlight how disabled characters and creators are reclaiming the genre as a space for agency, visibility, and critique. By prioritizing disabled voices, lived experiences, and evolving disability models, Horror and Disability illustrates how the genre mirrors wider cultural fears about the body while opening new avenues for representation, agency, and solidarity.

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