‘It’s Really Scared of Disability’: Disabled Comedians’ Perspectives of the British Television Comedy Industry
‘It’s Really Scared of Disability’: Disabled Comedians’ Perspectives of the British Television Comedy Industry
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“真的很害怕残疾”：残疾喜剧演员对英国电视喜剧行业的看法
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2015
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Sharon Lockyer
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Sharon Lockyer
25年来，电视广播公司、监管机构和评论家一直并将继续团结一致，希望增加整个电视行业工作的残疾人人数，并改善残疾人在电视节目中的代表性。然而，很少有研究集中在电视行业内工作的残疾电视编剧和表演者的生活经历。通过对残疾人喜剧作家和表演者的半结构化访谈的主题分析，本文特别关注当代电视喜剧行业中残疾人喜剧专业人士的日常工作经历。两个主要的相互关联的主题突出和探讨：1）电视喜剧行业的机构动态;和2）目前的残疾电视喜剧描绘的限制。这些主题揭示了残疾人喜剧专业人士所经历的残疾机构规范，以及他们对最近电视喜剧节目中残疾人代表性的批判性看法，包括《我是Spazticus》和《最后一程》。
For over 25 years television broadcasters, regulators and critics have been, and continue to be, united in their desire to increase the number of disabled staff working across the television industry and to improve the representation of disabled people in television programmes. However, little research focusses on the lived experiences of disabled television writers and performers working within the television industry. Via thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with disabled comedy writers and performers, this article specifically focuses on the everyday working experiences of disabled comedy professionals in the contemporary television comedy industry. Two main interconnected themes are highlighted and explored: 1) institutional dynamics of the television comedy industry; and 2) limits of current portrayals of disability in television comedy. These themes reveal the disabling institutional norms experienced by disabled comedy professionals and their critical perceptions of the representations of disability in recent television comedy programmes, including I’m Spazticus and The Last Leg.