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UNINA9910552783903321 |
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The Problem Body : Projecting Disability on Film / / edited by Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotić |
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Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2010 |
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©2010 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (229 pages) : illustrations, photographs |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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MarkotićNicole |
ChiversSally <1972-> |
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Disciplina |
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Sociology of disability |
Human body in motion pictures |
People with disabilities in motion pictures |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
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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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UNINA9910966806303321 |
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Autore |
Bion Wilfred R (Wilfred Ruprecht), <1897-1979.> |
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All my sins remembered : another part of a life ; and, The other side of genius : family letters / / Wilfred R. Bion ; edited by Francesca Bion |
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0-429-91069-X |
0-429-47169-6 |
1-282-90091-9 |
9786612900914 |
1-84940-103-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (252 p.) |
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First published by Fleetwood Press, 1985. |
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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 |
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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 |
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