This volume focuses on popular film, television, and online
representations of contested corporealities and contributes to
visual culture studies, disability studies, critical pedagogy, and
medical humanities. Emphasizing unruly embodiments that transgress
and transform, the volume conceptualizes visual culture as a space
of query and accountability. In their introduction, the editors
underline how spaces of cultural production provide necessary
contexts for analyzing the social impact of contested
corporealities. Contributors, in turn, offer new perspectives on
technologies, disability, and cultural production. Eunjung Kim
argues that life-size dolls in contemporary art films show how acts
of caring for radically passive bodies can emerge as both erotic
and beautiful; Nicole Markoti critiques the prioritizing of death
as the most desirable, logical outcome in biopics of disability;
and Katherine W. Sweaney's article on the online anatomization of
an amnesiac's brain reminds us of the high stakes for medicine and
science in the public display of knowledge-making. Working at the
intersection of fat and critical race studies, Scott Stoneman
discusses the body politics of the film "Precious." Katerie Gladdys
and Deshae E. Lott reflect on their lyrical installation about life
with mechanical ventilation, and Ann Fudge Schormans and Adrienne
Chambon examine how image-making by persons with intellectual
disabilities can intervene in ableist-defined social space. With
attention to queer theory and transnationalism, Michael Gill
considers the British web-based RTV program, "The Specials," where
young men labeled as intellectually disabled fashion their erotic
self-understandings as they discuss and appreciate an ensemble of
Thai "kathoey" performers. Concentrating on the global politics of
organ transplantation, Donna McCormack critically examines feature
films that mediate questions of community, ethics, and mobility.
The volume is further enriched by the inclusion of an interview in
which Danielle Peers, Melisa Brittain, and Robert McRuer discuss
the significance of crip possibilities in art and academia.
This book was originally published as a special issue of "The
Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies.""
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