Different bodies : essays on disability in film and television /

Different bodies : essays on disability in film and television / edited by Marja Evelyn Mogk.

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"This is a collection of 19 new essays by 21 different authors. It focuses on contemporary film and television (1989 to the present). The essays are divided into three sections. The book as a whole is designed to be accessible to readers new to disability studies, while also contributing signif...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Mogk, Marja (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2013]
Subjects:
People with disabilities in motion pictures.
People with disabilities on television.
Table of Contents:
  • Deaf sexy : genre and disability in Read my lips / Timothy E. Wilson
  • Punk will tear us apart : performance, liminality and filmic depictions of disabled punk musicians / David Church
  • Acquired community : Leigh Bowery and Hail the new Puritan's mise-en-scène of AIDS / Heather Warren-Crow
  • Razzle-dazzle heartbreak : disability promotion and glorious abjection in Guy Maddin's The saddest music in the world / Nicole Markotić
  • Seeing the apricot : a disability perspective on Alzheimer's in Lee Chang-dong's Poetry / Sally Chivers
  • Breaking the silence? Deafness, education and identity in two post-cultural revolution Chinese films / Sarah Dauncey
  • Modernity's rescue mission : postcolonial transactions of disability and sexuality / Eunjung Kim and Michelle Jarman
  • Chocolate's ass-kicking autistic savant : disability, globalization and the action cinema / Russell Meeuf
  • Physical disability and Indian cinema / Joyojeet Pal
  • Extra-textual reveals : disability, (sort of) queer sexuality and a military coup in Battlestar Galactica / Alyson Patsavas
  • Healer? Assassin? Ben Hawkins, "cure," "disability" and missions in HBO's Carnivàle / Johnson Cheu
  • "Are they laughing at us or with us?" Disability in Fox's animated series Family guy / Simon McKeown and Paul A. Darke
  • Choreographing disability : stigma, handicapability and Dancing with the stars / Heath A. Diehl
  • Don't film us, we'll film you : agency and self-representation in the Joined for life television documentaries / Ellen Samuels
  • The making of 18q- : parental advocacy, disability and the ethics of documentary filmmaking / Veronica Wain
  • Overcoming the need to "overcome" : challenging disability narratives in The miracle / Terri Thrower
  • Born on the Fourth of July : production and assessment of a turbulent text / Martin F. Norden
  • Deafness as Peripeteia : "Beethoven" and Immortal beloved / Dawne C. McCance
  • "This isn't something I can fake" : the discourse of disability surrounding Glee! / Katie Ellis.

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