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Screening Disability - Essays on Cinema and Disability (Hardcover)
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Screening Disability - Essays on Cinema and Disability (Hardcover)
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Depictions and portrayals of persons who live with disability in
motion pictures have changed over time, sometimes reflecting, at
other times influencing, societal attitudes and beliefs. Yet
disability itself has no easily recognizable form. When isolated
from the mainstream of human existence by artistic representations,
the disabled individual is effectively transformed into an object
of cultural fascination, a fragment of humanity, the Other. The
disabled experience, defined only in relation to a perceived lack
of human potentiality, becomes significant as a distorted mirror
image of what we take to be "human" and thereby reveals our
culture's preconceived notions of normalcy. Screening Disability
was conceived to provide both an overview of the traditional
methods of analyzing portrayals of disability in cinema as well as
suggesting new directions for cinema and disability scholars to
take. This book not only shows where the study of cinema and
disability began, but it also marks a potentially new phase in the
study of cinema and disability by incorporating elements of Film
Studies that emphasize the priority of reception and the complexity
of texts.
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