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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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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966806303321

Autore

Bion Wilfred R (Wilfred Ruprecht), <1897-1979.>

Titolo

All my sins remembered : another part of a life ; and, The other side of genius : family letters / / Wilfred R. Bion ; edited by Francesca Bion

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Karnac, 1991

ISBN

0-429-91069-X

0-429-47169-6

1-282-90091-9

9786612900914

1-84940-103-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BionFrancesca

Disciplina

150.19/5092

150.195

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published by Fleetwood Press, 1985.

Nota di contenuto

FOREWORD; FOREWORD TO THE LONG WEEK-END; ALL MY SINS REMEMBERED; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; THE OTHER SIDE OF GENIUS I Letters To Francesca; THE OTHER SIDE OF GENIUS II Letters To Parthenope, Julian and Nicola; ENVOI

Sommario/riassunto

All My Sins Remembered is the continuation of Wilfred Bion's autobiography, The Long Week-end. Although it is by no means a full account of his thirty years following the First World War - and he wrote no more - his memories of that period contrast vividly with the impression we gain of the following thirty years of his life through his letters. The Other Side of Genius gives us a glimpse of this remarkable man as his family knew him: those who met him only through his professional work will find here the same characteristic threads of humour, concern for truth, and flashes of insight that wer