| Description |
ix, 272 pages ; 26 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Summary |
"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 significantly to the field"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-262) and index. |
| 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-scčne of AIDS / Heather Warren-Crow -- Razzle-dazzle heartbreak : disability promotion and glorious abjection in Guy Maddin's The saddest music in the world / Nicole Markoti -- 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 Carnivāle / 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. |
| Subject |
People with disabilities in motion pictures.
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People with disabilities on television.
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Disabled Persons. |
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People with disabilities in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01057367
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People with disabilities on television. (OCoLC)fst01057373
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| Added Author |
Mogk, Marja, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780786465354 (softcover : alk. paper) |
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0786465352 (softcover : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
40022853070 |
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