Titlebook: Media, Performative Identity, and the New American Freak Show; Jessica L. Williams Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(

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Introduction,all of the case studies together. The chapter demonstrates how the concept of new American freak show is characterized by mediation and a collision between freak and non-freak bodies. It also discusses the significance of understanding the freak body as a performative identity and underscores the concept that all freaks are socially constructed.

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,Reality, Normality, Sexuality: “Authentic” Portrayals of the Freak,ooks at TLC’s lineup of body-obsessed reality shows, the documentary ., and the docudrama . as examples of mediated real-life representations of the freak body. It finds that the mode of presentation is significant in the access it gives the viewer to the freak body, as well as in its contact with freak sexuality.

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Freak Pornography and the Cultural Politics of Disabled Sexuality,nds that the lack of mediation in amateur pornography brings the viewer closer to the freakish body than ever before and that because the viewer is still watching from their computers, tablets, or phones, the spatial and temporal separation that is consistent in the new American freak show is present and accounted for.

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media transmits and contextualizes, reinterprets, and approThis book traces how the American freak show has re-emerged in new visual forms in the 21st century. It explores the ways in which moving image media transmits and contextualizes, reinterprets and appropriates, the freak show model into a “

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