Waubonsee Community College

Disability in film and literature, Nicole Markotić

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

Disability in film and literature

bibliography

933438454

Nicole Markotić

."Disabled characters are often represented as aberrant or evil and are isolated or incarcerated. This book examines language in film and fiction that perpetuates the representation of the disabled as abnormal or problematic. The author looks at depictions of disability--both disparaging and amusing--and discusses disability theory as a framework for reconsidering "normal" and "abnormal" bodies"-- Publisher information

Introduction : The [adj.] body -- Razzle dazzle heartbreak : disability promotion and glorious abjection in Guy Maddin's The saddest music in the world -- Transposing disability : passing, intellectual disabilities, and accommodating others -- Icarus, gods and the "lesson" of disability -- Freaks, misfits and other citizens -- 20th-century fables : fiction, disease, and--oh yeah--disability -- The body in pieces : Lacan and the crisis of the united fragmentary -- The narrator witness : dis/connections between disability and death -- Where the line breaks : disability in the poetry of Roy Miki and Sharon Thesen -- Play the facts and the truth : disability in documentary film -- Sitting pretty : the politics of (not) standing on ceremony -- Afterword : Not assisted suicide, yet!