Screening Disability: Essays on Cinema and Disability - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0761820175 ISBN 13 : 9780761820178

Editeur : University Press Of America, 2001

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Christopher R. Smit is Graduate Instructor in the Rhetoric Department at University of Iowa.
Anthony W. Enns is completing his Doctorate at the University of Iowa.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press Of America
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0761820175
• ISBN 13: 9780761820178
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 214
• Éditeur: Smit Christopher R.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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