caa a22 4500 378892053 CHVBK 20180305123457.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20041201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/comm.2004.29.4.447 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/comm.2004.29.4.447 Kama Amit Supercrips versus the pitiful handicapped: Reception of disabling images by disabled audience members [Elektronische Daten] [Amit Kama] Thirty Israeli disabled people were asked to describe their most memorable interactions with mass mediated images of disability as part of a tentative endeavor to delve into their reception patterns. Two stereotypes are discussed in this paper, namely the supercrip and the pitiful disabled. The interviewees seek examples to corroborate their belief that physical, social, and cultural obstacles can be overcome. Highly regarded supercrips embody one example as ‘regular' (i. e., ‘someone like me') people are especially coveted. Well-known, successful disabled people are put on a pedestal for their demonstrated ability to triumph. This triumph is used to validate the disabled individual and to alter societal perceptions. Consequently, the wish to see disabled who ‘have done it' is particularly intense while the pitiful disabled trigger antipathy because they reproduce and reinforce disabled people's inferior positionality and exclusion. © Walter de Gruyter Sociolinguistics nationallicence Gender studies nationallicence Social theory nationallicence disabling images nationallicence disabled audience members nationallicence supercrip nationallicence Communications Walter de Gruyter 29/4(2004-12-01), 447-466 0341-2059 29:4<447 2004 29 comm https://doi.org/10.1515/comm.2004.29.4.447 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/comm.2004.29.4.447 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kama Amit NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Communications Walter de Gruyter 29/4(2004-12-01), 447-466 0341-2059 29:4<447 2004 29 comm CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter