Animated Film and Disability : Cripping Spectatorship / Slava Greenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenberg, Slava, author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities.

Animated films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 202 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2022]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"While many films portray disability as a spectacle, the cinematic field of "crip animation" (a term that purposefully makes readers uncomfortable) has the power to challenge the ableist gaze and immerse viewers in an alternative bodily experience. Animated Film and Disability analyzes over 30 animated works that represent disabled characters, including Finding Nemo, Inside Out, and BoJack Horseman, and contends that crip animation has the power to disorient viewers and force them to become aware of their own bodies. Slava Greenberg focuses not only on representations of internal psychological worlds and conditions but also the subjective viewpoints of people with disabilities. In addition, Greenberg explores physical and sensory accessibility in theaters and suggests new ways to accommodate cinematic screenings for disabled audiences. Offering an introduction to disability studies and crip theory for film, media, and animation scholars, Animated Film and Disability demonstrates that crip animation has the power to breach the spectator's comfort, subvert tradition, and create deeper understanding"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: animation, disability, and spectatorship

1. Resisting the ableist gaze: between mainstream and experimental forms

2. Embodying spectatorship: intersubjective ways of being-in-the-world

3. Blinding the spectator: non-vision-centric pleasures

4. Defeaning the spectator: rethinking sonic pleasures and audism

5. Toward accessible spectatorships.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253064516

0253064511

9780253064523

025306452X

OCLC:

1362869075