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• Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: Disability Studies, World Cinema and the Cognitive Code of Reality, by Benjamin Fraser Global In(ter)dependent Disability Cinema: Targeting Ephemeral Domains of Belief and Cultivating Aficionados of the Body, by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder 'Beyond Forgiveness'? Lee Chang-dong's Oasis (2002) and the Mobilisation of Disability Discourses in the Korean New Wave, by Paul Petrovic Refusing Chromosomal Pairing: Inclusion, Disabled Masculinity, Sexuality and Intimacy in Yo mama, tambien (2009), by Michael Gill Dunce! Duffer! Dimwit!: Dyslexia in Bollywood's Taare Zameen Par (2007), by Sanjukta Ghosh Landscapes of Children: Picturing Disability in Bunuel's Los olvidados (1950), by Susan Antebi Fearful Reflections: Representations of Disability in Postwar Dutch Cinema (1973-2011), by Mitzi Waltz 'People Endure': The Function of Autism in Anton's Right Here (2012), by Jose Alaniz Displaying Autism: The Thinking and Images of Temple Grandin (2010), by Katherine Lashley More than the 'Other'? On Four Tendencies Regarding the Representation of Disability in Contemporary German Film (2005-2010), by Petra Anders The Other Body: Psychiatric Disability and Pedro Almodovar (1988-2011), by Candace Skibba On the Road to Normalcy: European Road Movies and Disability (2002-2011), by Anna Grebe Re-envisioning Italy's 'New Man' in Bella non piangere! (1955), by Jennifer Griffiths 'Get Your Legs Back': Avatar (2009) and the Re-booting of American Individualism, by Susan Flynn Through the Disability Lens: Revisiting Ousmane Sembene's Xala (1975) and Camp de Thiaroye (1988), by Ken Junior Lipenga Homes Wretched and Wrecked: Disability as Social Dis-ease in Kurosawa's Dodes'ka-den (1970), by James A. Wren Leprosy and the Dialectical Body in Forugh Farrokhzad's The House is Black (1964), by Rosa Holman Index.
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Cultures of Representation is the first book to explore the cinematic portrayal of disability in films from across the globe. Contributors explore classic and recent works from Belgium, France, Germany, India, Italy, Iran, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, Senegal, and Spain, along with a pair of globally resonant Anglophone films. Anchored by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder's coauthored essay on global disability-film festivals, the volume's content spans from 1950 to today, addressing socially disabling forces rendered visible in the representation of physical, developmental, cognitive, and psychiatric disabilities. Essays emphasize well-known global figures, directors, and industries - from Temple Grandin to Pedro Almodovar, from Akira Kurosawa to Bollywood - while also shining a light on films from less frequently studied cultural locations such as those portrayed in the Iranian and Korean New Waves. Whether covering postwar Italy, postcolonial Senegal, or twenty-first century Russia, the essays in this volume will appeal to scholars, undergraduates, and general readers alike.
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• 1. Introduction: The Bricolage of Documentary and Disability (Catalin Brylla, Helen Hughes).- 2. Part One: Film Practice -
• Chapter 2: Not Without Us - Collaborating Across Difference in Documentary Filmmaking (Samuel Avery).- 3. Visual Psychological Anthropology and the Lived Experience of Disability (Annie Tucker, Robert Lemelson).- 4. Valorising Disability on Screen: When did `Inspirational' Become a Dirty Word? (Veronica Wain).- 5. Spectatorship and Alternative Portrayals of Blindness (Catalin Brylla.- 6. Aberrancy and Autobiographical Documentary (Phoebe Hart).- 7. Part Two: Representation -
• Chapter 7: Thomas Quasthoff and the Performativity of Disability in Michael Harder's The Dreamer (Anna Drum, Martin Brady).- 8. Rethinking Ability and Disability in the Work of Johan van der Keuken (Hing Tsang).- 9. (Dis)abling the Spectator: Embodying Disability Experience in Animated Documentary (Slava Greenberg).- 10. The Poetics of Touch: Mediating the Reality of Deafblindness in Planet of Snail (Anne-Marie Callus).- 11. Sexual Dissidence and Crip Empowerment in Yes, We Fuck! (Andrea Garcia-Santesmases).- 12. Part Three: Identity, Participation and Exhibition -
• Chapter 12: Accessing Alternative Ethical Maps of In(ter)depenent Living in Global Disability Documentary (David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder).- 13. Interface Productions and Disability Programming for Channel 4: 1984 - 1986 (Tony Steyger, Jamie Clarke).- 14. Disability and the Para-TV Communities of Reality Television (Anita Biressi).- 15. Singing Altogether Now: Unsettling Images of Disability and Experimental Filmic Practices (Robert Stock).- 16. To Document is to Preserve: Moving Pictures and Sign Language (Magdalena Zdrodowska).- 17. Documenting Neuropolitics: Cochlear Implant Activation Videos (Beate Ochsner).- 18. On Andrew Kotting's Mapping Perception (Helen Hughes).â .
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This edited collection of contributions from media scholars, film practitioners and film historians connects the vibrant fields of documentary and disability studies. Documentary film has not only played an historical role in the social construction of disability but continues to be a strong force for expression, inclusion and activism. Offering essays on the interpretation and conception of a wide variety of documentary formats, Documentary and Disability reveals a rich set of resources on subjects as diverse as Thomas Quasthoff's opera performances, Tourette syndrome in the developing world, queer approaches to sexual functionality, Channel 4 disability sports broadcasting, the political meaning of cochlear implant activation, and Christoph's Schlingensief's celebrated Freakstars 3000.
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It was not long ago that scientists proclaimed victory over polio, the dread disease of the 1950s. More recently polio resurfaced, not conquered at all, spreading across the countries of Africa. As we once again face the specter of this discase, along with other killers like AIDS and SARS, this powerful book reminds us of the personal cost, the cultural implications, and the historical significance of one of modern humanity's deadliest biological enemies. In Polio and Its Aftermath Marc Shell, himself a victim of polio, offers an inspired analysis of the disease. Part memoir, part cultural criticism and history, part meditation on the meaning of disease, Shell's work combines the understanding of a medical researcher with the sensitivity of a literary critic. He deftly draws a detailed yet broad picture of the lived experience of a crippling disease as it makes it way into every facet of human existence. Polio and Its Aftermath conveys the widespread panic that struck as the disease swept the world in the mid-fifties. It captures an atmosphere in which polio vied with the Cold War as the greatest cause of unrest in North America - and in which a strange and often debilitating uncertainty was one of the disease's salient but least treatable symptoms. Polio particularly afflicted the young, and Shell explores what this meant to families and communities. And he reveals why, in spite of the worldwide relief that greeted Jonas Salk's vaccine as a miracle of modern science, we have much more to fear from polio now than we know.
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• Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: Disability Studies, World Cinema and the Cognitive Code of Reality, by Benjamin Fraser Global In(ter)dependent Disability Cinema: Targeting Ephemeral Domains of Belief and Cultivating Aficionados of the Body, by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder 'Beyond Forgiveness'? Lee Chang-dong's Oasis (2002) and the Mobilisation of Disability Discourses in the Korean New Wave, by Paul Petrovic Refusing Chromosomal Pairing: Inclusion, Disabled Masculinity, Sexuality and Intimacy in Yo mama, tambien (2009), by Michael Gill Dunce! Duffer! Dimwit!: Dyslexia in Bollywood's Taare Zameen Par (2007), by Sanjukta Ghosh Landscapes of Children: Picturing Disability in Bunuel's Los olvidados (1950), by Susan Antebi Fearful Reflections: Representations of Disability in Postwar Dutch Cinema (1973-2011), by Mitzi Waltz 'People Endure': The Function of Autism in Anton's Right Here (2012), by Jose Alaniz Displaying Autism: The Thinking and Images of Temple Grandin (2010), by Katherine Lashley More than the 'Other'? On Four Tendencies Regarding the Representation of Disability in Contemporary German Film (2005-2010), by Petra Anders The Other Body: Psychiatric Disability and Pedro Almodovar (1988-2011), by Candace Skibba On the Road to Normalcy: European Road Movies and Disability (2002-2011), by Anna Grebe Re-envisioning Italy's 'New Man' in Bella non piangere! (1955), by Jennifer Griffiths 'Get Your Legs Back': Avatar (2009) and the Re-booting of American Individualism, by Susan Flynn Through the Disability Lens: Revisiting Ousmane Sembene's Xala (1975) and Camp de Thiaroye (1988), by Ken Junior Lipenga Homes Wretched and Wrecked: Disability as Social Dis-ease in Kurosawa's Dodes'ka-den (1970), by James A. Wren Leprosy and the Dialectical Body in Forugh Farrokhzad's The House is Black (1964), by Rosa Holman Index.
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Cultures of Representation is the first book to explore the cinematic portrayal of disability in films from across the globe. Contributors explore classic and recent works from Belgium, France, Germany, India, Italy, Iran, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, Senegal, and Spain, along with a pair of globally resonant Anglophone films. Anchored by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder's coauthored essay on global disability-film festivals, the volume's content spans from 1950 to today, addressing socially disabling forces rendered visible in the representation of physical, developmental, cognitive, and psychiatric disabilities. Essays emphasize well-known global figures, directors, and industries - from Temple Grandin to Pedro Almodovar, from Akira Kurosawa to Bollywood - while also shining a light on films from less frequently studied cultural locations such as those portrayed in the Iranian and Korean New Waves. Whether covering postwar Italy, postcolonial Senegal, or twenty-first century Russia, the essays in this volume will appeal to scholars, undergraduates, and general readers alike.
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• La culture à l'épreuve du handicap
• Regards croisés sur les disability studies
• The Role(s) of Art and Literature in (Re)making Disability
• Conceptualiser le modèle culturel du handicap comme dis/ability. Perspectives interdisciplinaires et internationales
• Handicap et culture. La culture comme travail de réflexion
• Le handicap (visuel). Des perspectives exclusives aux différences inclusives
• Handicaps en société
• Parole et musique d'aveugle. La correspondance de Maria-Theresia von Paradis (1759-1824) avec Johann-Ludwig Weissenburg (1752-1800)
• Disability Studies, histoire de la littérature française et histoire des représentations. Surdité et Révolution dans le roman sentimental français
• Donner corps à ses frayeurs. Discours médical sur la surdité et anthropologie de la démocratie
• Les aveugles des philosophes de l'Âge classique aux Lumières. Aléas d'une pensée de la cécité entre rationalisme et empirisme
• Le handicap en spectacle pratiques artistiques, enjeux identitaires
• Take Shelter (USA, 2011). L'implant cochléaire au coeur de la tempête, ou la surdité comme prisme d'analyse cinématographique
• Le théâtre tremplin des Sourds. Enjeux identitaires et esthétiques à travers l'exemple de l'International Visual Theatre
• Mise en scène et mise en jeu du handicap mental sur la scène contemporaine française. L'Empereur c'est moi ! : un spectacle qui invite à un changement de paradigme
• Subvertir les discours paroles de sourds, points de vue aveugles
• Les Emmurés de Lucien Descaves. Un exemple de typhlophilie littéraire
• Reading Blindness in French Fiction through Critical Disability Studies
• La nuit et le noir, clichés métaphoriques de la cécité
• Performing "Hearing-ness". Representations of the "signing impaired" in Contemporary British Sign Language Storytelling and Signart
• Vers de nouvelles catégories ? Handicap et créativité académique
• Intermédialité et proxémie. Propositions pour une méthodologie d'analyse de la création en langue des signes
• La "langue" et la "poésie" représentent-elles la "poésie en langue des signes" ?
• De la nécessité de changer notre manière de regarder le handicap.

"Cet ouvrage, à l'intersection des Disability Studies et de la recherche française, rassemble des travaux issus de pays divers et de disciplines variées, qui visent tous à approcher de manière critique le handicap en tant que prisme d'analyse des productions culturelles des sociétés humaines. Les rapports entre handicap et culture sont saisis par l'étude critique des représentations et des discours mis en oeuvre dans diverses productions artistiques - notamment en littérature, poésie, théâtre ou cinéma. Une attention particulière est accordée aux contextes de création de ces oeuvres, aux expériences singulières qu'elles reflètent et à leur potentiel de subversion des normes et des discours sur le corps et l'individu déficient."--Page 4 of cover.

This is a collection of 19 new essays by 21 different authors from the United States, the UK, Canada, Australia and India. It focuses on contemporary film and television (1989 to the present) from those countries as well as from China, Korea, Thailand and France. The essays are divided into three sections. The first and second, entitled "Disability on Screen: Critical Reflections, " include critical readings of narrative film and television respectively. The third, entitled "Disability in Production and Reception: Critical Reflections, " includes essays on documentaries, biopics and autobiographically-informed films, and an essay on audience reactions to a television series. The book as a whole is designed to be accessible to readers new to disability studies, while also contributing significantly to the field. An introduction provides a background in disability studies and an appendix of suggested reading in disability studies is provided.
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• Introduction
• 1. Traum
• a2. Disability3.Gende
• r4. Mytholog
• y5. FandomConclusion.
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This book explores the inter-relationship of disability and trauma in the Mad Max films (1979-2015). George Miller's long-running series is replete with narratives and imagery of trauma, both physical and emotional, along with major and minor characters who are prominently disabled. The Mad Max movies foreground representations of the body - in devastating injury and its lasting effects - and in the broader social and historical contexts of trauma, disability, gender and myth. Over the franchise's four-decade span significant social and cultural change has occurred globally. Many of the images of disability and trauma central to Max's post-apocalyptic wasteland can be seen to represent these societal shifts, incorporating both decline and rejuvenation. These shifts include concerns with social, economic and political disintegration under late capitalism, projections of survival after nuclear war, and the impact of anthropogenic climate change. Drawing on screen production processes, textual analysis and reception studies this book interrogates the role of these representations of disability, trauma, gender and myth to offer an in-depth cultural analysis of the social critiques evident within the fantasies of Mad Max.
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In "Cultural Locations of Disability", Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell trace how disabled people came to be viewed as biologically deviant. The eugenics era pioneered techniques that managed "defectives" through the application of therapies, invasive case histories, and acute surveillance techniques, turning disabled persons into subjects for a readily available research pool. In its pursuit of normalization, eugenics implemented disability regulations that included charity systems, marriage laws, sterilization, institutionalization, and even extermination. Enacted in enclosed disability locations, these practices ultimately resulted in expectations of segregation from the mainstream, leaving today's disability politics to focus on reintegration, visibility, inclusion, and the right of meaningful public participation. Snyder and Mitchell reveal cracks in the social production of human variation as aberrancy. From our modern obsessions with tidiness and cleanliness to our desire to attain perfect bodies, notions of disabilities as examples of human insufficiency proliferate. These disability practices infuse more general modes of social obedience at work today. Consequently, this important study explains how disabled people are instrumental to charting the passage from a disciplinary society to one based upon regulation of the self.
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• Foreword Robert Dawidoff Introduction Part I: Analyses and Reconstructions
• 1. Disability Watch
• 2. The Life of Randolph Bourne and the Need for a History of Disabled People
• 3. Uncovering the Hidden History of Disabled People
• 4. The League of the Physically Handicapped and the Great Depression: A Case Study in the New Disability History
• 5. The Disability Rights Moment: Activism in the 1970s and Beyond Part II: Images and Reflections
• 6. Film Reviews
• 7. Screening Stereotypes: Images of Disabled People in Television and Motion Pictures Part III: Ethics and Advocacy
• 8. Elizabeth Bouvia, Assisted Suicide, and Social Prejudice
• 9. The Resistance: The Disability Rights Movement and Assisted Suicide
• 10. Medical Decision Making and People with Disabilities: A Clash of Cultures Part IV: Protests and Forecasts
• 11. The Second Phase: From Disability Rights to Disability Culture
• 12. Princeton and Peter Singer
• 13. Why I Burned My Book Index.
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This wide-ranging book shows why Paul Longmore is one of the most respected figures in disability studies today. Understanding disability as a major variety of human experience, he urges us to establish it as a category of social, political, and historical analysis in much the same way that race, gender, and class already have been. The essays here search for the often hidden pattern of systemic prejudice and probe into the institutionalized discrimination that affects the one in five Americans with disabilities. Whether writing about the social critic Randolph Bourne, contemporary political activists, or media representations of people with disabilities, Longmore demonstrates that the search for heroes is a key part of the continuing struggle of disabled people to gain a voice and to shape their destinies. His essays on bioethics and public policy examine the conflict of agendas between disability rights activists and non-disabled policy makers, healthcare professionals, euthanasia advocates, and corporate medical bureaucracies. The title essay, which concludes the book, demonstrates the necessity of activism for any disabled person who wants access to the American dream. Paul K. Longmore is Professor of History at San Francisco State University. He is the author of "The Invention of George Washington" and the co-editor (with Lauri Umansky) of "The New Disability History: American Perspectives".
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• Foreword Robert Dawidoff Introduction Part I: Analyses and Reconstructions
• 1. Disability Watch
• 2. The Life of Randolph Bourne and the Need for a History of Disabled People
• 3. Uncovering the Hidden History of Disabled People
• 4. The League of the Physically Handicapped and the Great Depression: A Case Study in the New Disability History
• 5. The Disability Rights Moment: Activism in the 1970s and Beyond Part II: Images and Reflections
• 6. Film Reviews
• 7. Screening Stereotypes: Images of Disabled People in Television and Motion Pictures Part III: Ethics and Advocacy
• 8. Elizabeth Bouvia, Assisted Suicide, and Social Prejudice
• 9. The Resistance: The Disability Rights Movement and Assisted Suicide
• 10. Medical Decision Making and People with Disabilities: A Clash of Cultures Part IV: Protests and Forecasts
• 11. The Second Phase: From Disability Rights to Disability Culture
• 12. Princeton and Peter Singer
• 13. Why I Burned My Book Index.
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This wide-ranging book shows why Paul Longmore is one of the most respected figures in disability studies today. Understanding disability as a major variety of human experience, he urges us to establish it as a category of social, political, and historical analysis in much the same way that race, gender, and class already have been. The essays here search for the often hidden pattern of systemic prejudice and probe into the institutionalized discrimination that affects the one in five Americans with disabilities. Whether writing about the social critic Randolph Bourne, contemporary political activists, or media representations of people with disabilities, Longmore demonstrates that the search for heroes is a key part of the continuing struggle of disabled people to gain a voice and to shape their destinies. His essays on bioethics and public policy examine the conflict of agendas between disability rights activists and non-disabled policy makers, healthcare professionals, euthanasia advocates, and corporate medical bureaucracies. The title essay, which concludes the book, demonstrates the necessity of activism for any disabled person who wants access to the American dream. Paul K. Longmore is Professor of History at San Francisco State University. He is the author of "The Invention of George Washington" and the co-editor (with Lauri Umansky) of "The New Disability History: American Perspectives".
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• Introduction: Framing Cultural Pluralism Anew in Contemporary Spanish Cinema Studies I. Adolescence and Alterity 1.The "Angry Girl" in Mensaka, Paginas de una historia ("Mensaka, Pages from a Story") (Salvador Garcia Ruiz, 1998)
• 2. A Lad Indeed: Boyhood Friendship and the Politics of Masculinity in El Bola ("Pellet") (Achero Manas, 2000) II. Senescence and Subjectivity 3.The Black Comedy of Aging in Justino, un asesino de la tercera edad ("Justino, a Senior Citizen Killer") ("La Cuadrilla" or Santiago Aguilar & Luis Guridi, 1994) 4.Senescent Seduction in Elsa y Fred ("Elsa and Fred") (Marcos Carnevale, 2004) III. Discourses of Disability 5.The Unseen Inside: Mental Illness as Disability in Mar adentro ("The Sea Inside")(Alejandro Amenabar, 2004)
• 6. A Pluralistic Vision: On Blindness and the Break with Auteurist "Autocracy" in Los abrazos rotos ("Broken Embraces") (Pedro Almodovar, 2009)Afterword.
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The Politics of Age and Disability in Contemporary Spanish Film examines the onscreen construction of adolescent, elderly, and disabled subjects in Spanish cinema from 1992 to the present. Applying a dual lens of film analysis and theory drawn from the allied fields of youth, age, and disability studies, this study is set both within and against a conversation on cultural diversity-with respect to gender, sexual, and ethnic identity-which has driven not only much of the past decade's most visible and fruitful scholarship on representation in Spanish film, but also the broader parameters of discourse on post-Transition Spain in the humanities. Presenting an engaging, and heretofore under-explored, interdisciplinary approach to images of multiculturalism in what has emerged as one of recent Spain's most vibrant areas of cultural production, this book brings a fresh, while still complementary, critical sensibility to the field of contemporary Peninsular film studies through its detailed discussion of six contemporary films (by Salvador Garcia Ruiz, Achero Manas, Santiago Aguilar & Luis Guridi, Marcos Carnevale, Alejandro Amenabar, and Pedro Almodovar) and supporting reference to the production of other prominent and emerging filmmakers.
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• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Al Qur'an's Teachings with Respect to the Disabled
• Chapter 2: The Tunisian Deaf Mute through the Lens of American Orientalism
• Chapter 3: Tunisian Camera's Treatment of Disability
• Chapter 4: The Disabled Native: Ressource Humaine for the French: A Literary Study of Algerian Rachid Mimouni's Tombeza
• Chapter 5: The Case of Female Characters with Disabilities: Moroccan Fatima vs. "Cure or Kill": A Disability Study of Tabar Ben Jelloun's l'Enfant de Sable [Sand Child]
• Chapter 6: Disability and Shame in Salman Rushdie's novel Shame: What it means to be a Pakistani Disabled Postcolonial Woman
• Chapter 7: The Egyptian Visually-Challenged Sheikh Husni's Treatment of Blindness in the Egyptian Film Al Kitkat
• Chapter 8: Iraqi in Paris: Speaking Volumes: the Bond in Deafness of an Iraqi Father and Son Conclusion Bibliography.
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This book explores portrayals and predicaments of the disabled in Arab/Muslim post colonial North African and Middle Eastern societies in genres ranging from classical Arabic scripture to secular popular culture including Francophone Moroccan and Algerian fiction, Egyptian Middle Eastern film, as well as Tunisian song and television. In line with theorists Aijaz Ahmad and Ato Quayson's objection to reading Third World literature as "national allegory, " The author argues that rather than being metaphors or allegories, disabled characters represent persons with disabilities in their culture and act as a mirror upon their changing societies. Contemporary Maghrebians and Muslims with disabilities find themselves at an intersection of conflicting and competing cultures, their native Islamic culture and Westernizing lifestyles. In the rush to import everything Western, despite humanitarian Islamic teachings regarding the disabled, are often abandoned. In situations of fundamentalist menace, the disabled, who tend to be the most vulnerable and abused fraction of Arab/Muslim society, suffer the worst, especially women.
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• 1. Key Themes and Ideas
• 2. Key Scene Analysis
• 3. Production History
• 4. Marketing and Reception
• 5. Legacy.
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"Bad Boy Bubby" focuses on a 35 year-old man-child whose 'mother/keeper' keeps him imprisoned in a windowless hovel. From the moment it entered the festival cycle in 1993, the film has polarized audiences. This volume examines how and why the film produced such conflicting responses, as well as reviewing its current relevance.
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• "The whole art of a wooden leg" : King Vidor's picturization of Laurence Stallings's "Great story" / Timothy Barnard
• Phantom limbs : noir and the disabled body / Michael Davidson
• Seeing blindness on-screen : the blind, female gaze / Johnson Cheu
• The wild child / Dawne McCance
• No life anyway : pathologizing disability on film / Paul Darke
• "And death--capital D--shall be no more--semicolon!" : explicating the terminally ill body in Margaret Edson's Wit / Heath Diehl
• "A man, with the same feelings" : disability, humanity, and heterosexual apparatus in Breaking the waves, Born on the Fourth of July, Breathing lessons, and Oasis / Eunjung Kim
• Neoliberal risks : Million dollar baby, Murderball, and anti-national sexual positions / Robert McRuer
• Body genres : an anatomy of disability in film / Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell
• "Blinded by the light," or : Where's the rest of me? / Anne Finger.

• Part 1 Cinema portrayal.
• Part 2 Television - fact and fiction.
• Part 3 Opening doors.
• Part 4 Culture and identity.
• Part 5 Product and control.
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This volume offers an introduction to disability portrayal in film and television, raising the questions of whose images, views and voices reach the screen. Disabled actors and producers talk about the barriers that still exist for those who want to work in the industry and critiques from within the disability arts movement are linked to the potential for creating new images.
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