Different Bodies: Essays on Disability in Film and Television

✍ Scribed by Marja Evelyn Mogk (editor)

• Publisher: McFarland
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 283
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 autobiographically-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. An introduction gives background on disability studies and appendices provide a filmography and a list of suggested reading.

✦ Table of Contents

Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: An Invitation to Disability
Part I: Disability on the Screen
Deaf Sexy: Genre and Disability in Read My Lips • Timothy E. Wilson
Punk Will Tear Us Apart: Performance, Liminality and Filmic Depictions of Disabled Punk Musicians • David Church
Acquired Community: Leigh Bowery and Hail the New Puritan’s Mise-en-Scène of AIDS • Heather Warren-Crow
Razzle-Dazzle Heartbreak: Disability Promotion and Glorious Abjection in Guy Maddin’s The Saddest Music in the World • Nicole Markotić
Seeing the Apricot: A Disability Perspective on Alzheimer’s in Lee Chang-dong’s Poetry • Sally Chivers
Breaking the Silence? Deafness, Education and Identity in Two Post-Cultural Revolution Chinese Films • Sarah Dauncey
Modernity’s Rescue Mission: Postcolonial Transactions of Disability and Sexuality • Eunjung Kim and Michelle Jarman
Chocolate’s Ass-Kicking Autistic Savant: Disability, Globalization and the Action Cinema • Russell Meeuf
Physical Disability and Indian Cinema • Joyojeet Pal
Extra-Textual Reveals: Disability, (Sort of ) Queer Sexuality and a Military Coup in Battlestar Galactica • Alyson Patsavas
Healer? Assassin? Ben Hawkins, “Cure,” “Disability” and Missions in HBO’s Carnivàle • Johnson Cheu
“Are they laughing at us or with us?” Disability in Fox’s Animated Series Family Guy • Simon McKeown and Paul A. Darke
Choreographing Disability: Stigma, Handicapability and Dancing with the Stars • Heath A. Diehl
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
The Making of 18q-: Parental Advocacy, Disability and the Ethics of Documentary Filmmaking • Veronica Wain
Overcoming the Need to “Overcome”: Challenging Disability Narratives in The Miracle • Terri Thrower
Born on the Fourth of July: Production and Assessment of a Turbulent Text • Martin F. Norden
Deafness as Peripeteia: “Beethoven” and Immortal Beloved • Dawne C. McCance
“This isn’t something I can fake”: The Discourse of Disability Surrounding Glee! • Katie Ellis
Appendix I: Filmography
Appendix II: Selected Readings in Disability Studies
About the Contributors
Index