The Problem Body Projecting Disability on Film / edited by Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotić.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Markotić, Nicole.

Chivers, Sally, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology of disability.

Human body in motion pictures.

People with disabilities in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In The Problem Body, editors Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotic bring together the work of eleven of the best disability scholars from the U.S., the U.K., Canada, and South Korea to explore a new approach to the study of film by concentrating on cinematic representations of what they term "the problem body." The book is a much-needed exploration of.

Contents:

Half Title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

"The Whole Art of a Wooden Leg": King Vidor's Picturization of Laurence Stallings's "Great Story"

Phantom Limbs: Film Noir and the Disabled Body

Seeing Blindness On-Screen: The Blind, Female Gaze

The Wild Child

No Life Anyway: Pathologizing Disability on Film

"And Death-capital D-shall be no more-semicolon!": Explicating the Terminally Ill Body in Margaret Edson's W

t

"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

Neoliberal Risks: Million Dollar Baby, Murderball, and Anti-National Sexual Positions

Body Genres: An Anatomy of Disability in Film

Coda: "Blinded by the Light," OR: Where's the Rest of Me?

Filmography

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8142-7085-9

OCLC:

899261241