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Record Nr.

UNINA9910552783903321

Titolo

The Problem Body : Projecting Disability on Film / / edited by Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotić

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

0-8142-7085-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Altri autori (Persone)

MarkotićNicole

ChiversSally <1972->

Disciplina

791.43/6561

Soggetti

Sociology of disability

Human body in motion pictures

People with disabilities in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- "The Whole Art of a Wooden Leg": King Vidor's Picturization of Laurence Stallings's "Great Story" -- Phantom Limbs: Film Noir and the Disabled Body -- Seeing Blindness On-Screen: The Blind, Female Gaze -- The Wild Child -- No Life Anyway: Pathologizing Disability on Film -- "And Death-capital D-shall be no more-semicolon!": Explicating the Terminally Ill Body in Margaret Edson's W -- t -- "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 -- Neoliberal Risks: Million Dollar Baby, Murderball, and Anti-National Sexual Positions -- Body Genres: An Anatomy of Disability in Film -- Coda: "Blinded by the Light," OR: Where's the Rest of Me? -- Filmography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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., Canada, and South Korea to explore a new approach to the study of film by concentrating on cinematic representations of what they term "the problem body." The book is a much-needed exploration



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