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9780761820178: Screening Disability: Essays on Cinema and Disability
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ISBN 10: 0761820175 ISBN 13: 9780761820178
Editorial: University Press Of America, 2001

Sinopsis

Depictions and portrayals of persons who live with disability in motion pictures have changed over time, sometimes reflecting, at other times influencing, societal attitudes and beliefs. Yet disability itself has no easily recognizable form. When isolated from the mainstream of human existence by artistic representations, the disabled individual is effectively transformed into an object of cultural fascination, a fragment of humanity, the Other. The disabled experience, defined only in relation to a perceived lack of human potentiality, becomes significant as a distorted mirror image of what we take to be 'human' and thereby reveals our culture's preconceived notions of normalcy. Screening Disability was conceived to provide both an overview of the traditional methods of analyzing portrayals of disability in cinema as well as suggesting new directions for cinema and disability scholars to take. This book not only shows where the study of cinema and disability began, but it also marks a potentially new phase in the study of cinema and disability by incorporating elements of Film Studies that emphasize the priority of reception and the complexity of texts.

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Acerca del autor

Christopher R. Smit is Graduate Instructor in the Rhetoric Department at University of Iowa.
Anthony W. Enns is completing his Doctorate at the University of Iowa.

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Editorial
University Press Of America
Año de publicación
2001
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0761820175
ISBN 13 
9780761820178
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
214
Editor
Smit Christopher R.
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Persona responsable
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9780761820161: Screening Disability: Essays on Cinema and Disability

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ISBN 10:  0761820167 ISBN 13:  9780761820161
Editorial: University Press of America, 2001
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