The problem body : projecting disability on film / edited by Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotić.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Chivers, Sally, 1972-
• Markotić, Nicole.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• People with disabilities in motion pictures.
• Human body in motion pictures.
• Sociology of disability.

Physical Description:

xi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2010]

Contents:

• "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 W;t / 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

ISBN:

• 9780814211243
• 0814211240
• 9780814292228
• 0814292224

OCLC:

475442750