The problem body : projecting disability on film / edited by Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotić.
- Format:
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- Contributor:
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- Language:
- English
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- Physical Description:
- xi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2010]
- Contents:
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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 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:
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- 9780814211243
- 0814211240
- 9780814292228
- 0814292224
- OCLC:
- 475442750
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