Different bodies : essays on disability in film and television / edited by Marja Evelyn Mogk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mogk, Marja, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities in motion pictures.

People with disabilities on television.

Physical Description:

ix, 272 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2013]

Summary:

"This collection of 19 new essays by 21 authors from the United States, the UK, Canada, Australia and India 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 two parts. The first includes critical readings of narrative film and television. The second includes contributions on documentaries, biopics and autobigrapically-informed films. The book as a whole is designed to be accessible to readers new to disability studies while also contributing significantly to the field."--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Part I Disability on the Screen

Deaf Sexy: Genre and Disability in Read My Lips / Timothy E. Wilson Wilson, Timothy E. 17

Punk Will Tear Us Apart: Performance, Liminality and Filmic Depictions of Disabled Punk Musicians / David Church Church, David 38

Acquired Community: Leigh Bowery and Hail the New Puritans Mise-en-Scène of AIDS / Heather Warren-Crow Warren-Crow, Heather 39

Razzle-Dazzle Heartbreak: Disability Promotion and Glorious Abjection in Guy Maddins The Saddest Music in the World / Nicole Markotic Markotic, Nicole 55

Seeing the Apricot: A Disability Perspective on Alzheimer's in Lee Chang-dong's Poetry / Sally Olivers Olivers, Sally 65

Breaking the Silence? Deafness, Education and Identity in Two Post-Cultural Revolution Chinese Films / Sarah Dauncey Dauncey, Sarah 75

Modernity's Rescue Mission: Postcolonial Transactions of Disability and Sexuality / Eunjung Kim Kim, Eunjung, Michelle Jarman Jarman, Michelle 89

Chocolate's Ass-Kicking Autistic Savant: Disability, Globalization and the Action Cinema / Russell Meeuf Meeuf, Russell 101

Physical Disability and Indian Cinema / Joyojeet Pal Pal, Joyojeet 109

Extra-Textual Reveals: Disability, (Sort of) Queer Sexuality and a Military Coup in Battlestar Galactica / Alyson Patsavas Patsavas, Alyson 131

Healer? Assassin? Ben Hawkins, "Cure," "Disability" and Missions in HBO's Carnivàle / Johnson Cheu Cheu, Johnson 145

"Are they laughing at us or with us?" Disability in Fox's Animated Series Family Guy / Simon McKeown McKeown, Simon, Paul A. Darke Darke, Paul A. 155

Choreographing Disability: Stigma, Handicapability and Dancing with the Stars / Heath A. Diehl Diehl, Heath A. 165

Part II Disability in Production and Reception

Don't Film Us, We'll Film You: Agency and Self-Representation in the Joined for Life Television Documentaries / Ellen Samuels Samuels, Ellen 175

The Making of 18q-: Parental Advocacy, Disability and the Ethics of Documentary Filmmaking / Veronica Wain Wain, Veronica 191

Overcoming the Need to "Overcome": Challenging Disability Narratives in The Miracle Term Thrower 205

Born on the Fourth of July: Production and Assessment of a Turbulent Text / Martin F. Norden Norden, Martin F. 219

Deafness as Peripeteia: "Beethoven" and Immortal Beloved / Dawne C. McCance McCance, Dawne C. 231

"This isn't something I can fake": The Discourse of Disability Surrounding Glee! / Katie Ellis Ellis, Katie 244.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780786465354

0786465352

OCLC:

830367181