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Popcorn Disabilities : The Highs and Lows of Disabled Representation in the Movies.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lopez, Kristen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Film criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
- System Details:
- text file rdaft
- Summary:
- A fascinating look at how disability has been used, depicted, and misrepresented on the silver screen.
- Contents:
- Foreword by Ben Mankiewicz Introduction: Surprise! Your Disability is Now a Movie 1. Silent Saints and Tragic Monsters 2. "One of Us" 3. Disabled Actors: An All-Too Brief History Lesson 4. War and the Rise of the Bitter Cripple 5. "You Never Go Full Retard" 6. Black and Disabled 7. Disabled Horror and the Horror of Disability 8. Pretty Disabilities 9. Caretaker Cinema 10. Cripping Up and the Oscar Myth Epilogue: Are We There Yet?
- ISBN:
- 9798765150320
- 1-4930-8634-0
- 9798765161272
- 9781493086344
- OCLC:
- 1545744191
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