Re-presenting the Paralympics: (contested) philosophies, production practices and the hypervisibility of disability
Authors: Pullen, E., Jackson, D., Silk, M. and Scullion, R.
Journal: Media, Culture and Society
Volume: 41
Issue: 4
Pages: 465-481
eISSN: 1460-3675
ISSN: 0163-4437
DOI: 10.1177/0163443718799399
Abstract:Studies that have engaged parasport broadcasting, particularly through a narrative lens, have almost exclusively relied on textual and/or content analysis of the Paralympic Games as the source of cultural critique. We know far less about the decisions taken inside Paralympic broadcasters that have led to such representations. In this study – based on interviews with senior production and promotion staff at the United Kingdom’s Paralympic broadcaster, Channel 4 – we provide the first detailed examination of mediated parasport from this vantage point. We explore the use of promotional devices such as athletes’ backstories – the ‘Hollywood treatment’ – to both hook audiences and serve as a vehicle for achieving its social enterprise mandate to change public attitudes towards disability. In so doing, we reveal myriad tensions that coalesce around representing the Paralympics, with respect to the efforts made to balance the competing goals of key stakeholders and a stated desire to make the Paralympics both a commercial and socially progressive success.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/31278/
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Re-presenting the Paralympics: (contested) philosophies, production practices and the hypervisibility of disability
Authors: Pullen, E., Jackson, D., Silk, M. and Scullion, R.
Journal: MEDIA CULTURE & SOCIETY
Volume: 41
Issue: 4
Pages: 465-481
eISSN: 1460-3675
ISSN: 0163-4437
DOI: 10.1177/0163443718799399
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/31278/
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Re-presenting the Paralympics: (contested) philosophies, production practices and the hypervisibility of disability
Authors: Pullen, E., Jackson, D., Silk, M. and Scullion, R.
Journal: Media, culture & society
Publisher: SAGE
ISSN: 0163-4437
DOI: 10.1177/0163443718799399
Abstract:Studies that have engaged para-sport broadcasting, particularly through a narrative lens, have almost exclusively relied on textual and/or content analysis of the Paralympic Games as the source of cultural critique. We know far less about the decisions taken inside Paralympic broadcasters that have led to such representations. In this study – based on interviews with senior production and promotion staff at the UK’s Paralympic broadcaster, Channel 4 – we provide the first detailed examination of mediated para-sport from this vantage point. We explore the use of promotional devices such as athletes’ backstories – the “Hollywood treatment” – to both hook audiences and serve as a vehicle for achieving its social enterprise mandate to change public attitudes toward disability. In so doing, we reveal myriad tensions that coalesce around representing the Paralympics; with respect to the efforts made to balance the competing goals of key stakeholders and a stated desire to make the Paralympics both a commercial and socially progressive success.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/31278/
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Re-presenting the Paralympics: (contested) philosophies, production practices and the hypervisibility of disability
Authors: Pullen, E., Jackson, D., Silk, M. and Scullion, R.
Journal: Media, culture & society
Volume: 41
Issue: 4
Pages: 465-481
ISSN: 0163-4437
Abstract:Studies that have engaged para-sport broadcasting, particularly through a narrative lens, have almost exclusively relied on textual and/or content analysis of the Paralympic Games as the source of cultural critique. We know far less about the decisions taken inside Paralympic broadcasters that have led to such representations. In this study – based on interviews with senior production and promotion staff at the UK’s Paralympic broadcaster, Channel 4 – we provide the first detailed examination of mediated para-sport from this vantage point. We explore the use of promotional devices such as athletes’ backstories – the “Hollywood treatment” – to both hook audiences and serve as a vehicle for achieving its social enterprise mandate to change public attitudes toward disability. In so doing, we reveal myriad tensions that coalesce around representing the Paralympics; with respect to the efforts made to balance the competing goals of key stakeholders and a stated desire to make the Paralympics both a commercial and socially progressive success.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/31278/
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