Cultures of representation : disability in world cinema contexts / edited by Benjamin Fraser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fraser, Benjamin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disabilities in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xi, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Disability in world cinema contexts

Place of Publication:

London : Wallflower Press, [2016]

Contents:

Introduction: disability studies, world cinema and the cognitive code of reality / Benjamin Fraser

Global in(ter)dependent disability cinema: targeting ephemeral domains of belief and cultivating aficionados of the body / 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 / Paul Petrovic

Refusing chromosomal pairing : inclusion, disabled masculinity, sexuality and intimacy in Yo, también (2009) / Michael Gill

Dunce! Duffer! Dimwit! : dyslexia in Bollywood's Taare Zameen Par (2007) / Sanjukta Ghosh

Landscapes of children : picturing disability in Buñuel's Los olvidados (1950) / Susan Antebi

Fearful reflections : representations of disability in Postwar Dutch cinema (1973-2011) / Mitzi Waltz

'People endure' : the function of autism in Anton's Right Here (2012) / José Alaniz

Displaying autism : the thinking and images of Temple Grandin (2010) / Katherine Lashley

More than the 'Other'? : on four tendencies regarding the representation of disability in contemporary German film (2005-2010) / Petra Anders

The other body : psychiatric disability and Pedro Almodóvar (1988-2011) / Candace Skibba

On the road to normalcy : European road movies and disability (2002-2011) / Anna Grebe

Re-envisioning Italy's 'New Man' in Bella non piangere! (1955) / Jennifer Griffiths

'Get your legs back' : Avatar (2009) and the re-booting of American individualism / Susan Flynn

Through the disability lens : revisiting Ousmane Sembène's Xala (1975) and Camp de Thiaroye (1988) / Ken Junior Lipenga

Homes wretched and wrecked : disability as social dis-ease in Kurosawa's Dodes'ka-den (1970) / James A. Wren

Leprosy and the dialectical body in Forugh Farrokhzad's The House is Black (1964) / Rosa Holman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780231177481

0231177488

9780231177498

0231177496

OCLC:

930485838