The problem body : projecting disability on film /

"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., and Canada to explore a new approach to the study of film by concentrating on cinematic representations of what they term "the problem...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Chivers, Sally, 1972- (Editor ), Markotić, Nicole (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2010]
Temas:
Bibel > Philemonbrief
People with disabilities in motion pictures.
Human body in motion pictures.
Sociology of disability.
People with disabilities.
Disabled Persons
Motion Pictures.
Human Body
Body Image
Sociological Factors
Personnes handicapées au cinéma.
Corps humain au cinéma.
Handicap > Aspect sociologique.
Personnes handicapées.
Cinéma.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Körperbehinderung > Motiv
Film.
Film criticism.
Critiques cinématographiques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotić
  • "The whole art of a wooden leg" : King Vidor's picturization of Laurence Stallings's "Great story" / Timothy Barnard
  • Phantom limbs : film noir and the disabled body / Michael Davidson
  • Seeing blindness on-screen : the blind, female gaze / Johnson Cheu
  • The wild child / Dawne McCance
  • No life anyway : pathologizing disability on film / Paul Darke
  • "And death--capital D--shall be no more--semicolon!" : explicating the terminally ill body in Margaret Edson's W;t / Heath Diehl
  • "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 / Eunjung Kim
  • Neoliberal risks : Million Dollar Baby, Murderball, and anti-national sexual positions / Robert McRuer
  • Body genres : an anatomy of disability in film / Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell
  • "Blinded by the light," or : Where's the rest of me? / Anne Finger.

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