Screening Disability: Essays on Cinema and Disability - Brossura

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

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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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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.



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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Editore
University Press Of America
Data di pubblicazione
2001
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0761820175
ISBN 13 
9780761820178
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
214
Redattore
Smit Christopher R.
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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9780761820161: Screening Disability: Essays on Cinema and Disability

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ISBN 10:  0761820167 ISBN 13:  9780761820161
Casa editrice: Univ Pr of Amer, 2001
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