03128oam 2200613I 450 991095843590332120251117090030.01-138-27582-41-315-25270-81-351-92884-810.4324/9781315252704(CKB)3710000001081548(MiAaPQ)EBC4817515(Au-PeEL)EBL4817515(CaPaEBR)ebr11356673(CaONFJC)MIL997203(OCoLC)975223025(OCoLC)988385481(BIP)58362672(BIP)8580029(EXLCZ)99371000000108154820180706e20162004 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierImages of idiocy the idiot figure in modern fiction and film /Martin Halliwell1st ed.London :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (281 pages) illustrationsFirst published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing.0-7546-0265-6 1-351-92885-6 Includes bibliographical references, index and filmography.pt. I. Idiocy in the nineteenth century -- pt. II. Idiocy and modernism -- pt. III. Idiocy after World War II.This book traces the concept of idiocy as it has developed in fiction and film in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It focuses particularly on visual images of idiocy and argues that writers as diverse as Gustave Flaubert, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Joseph Conrad, John Steinbeck, Flannery O'Connor and Rohinton Mistry, and filmmakers such as Jean Renoir, Akira Kurosawa, Alfred Hitchcock, Werner Herzog and John Huston have all been attracted to idiot figures as a way of thinking through issues of language acquisition, intelligence, creativity, disability, religion and social identity. Martin Halliwell provides a lively and detailed discussion of the most significant literary and cinematic uses of idiocy, arguing that scientific conceptions of the term as a classifiable medical condition are much too narrow. With the explosion of interest in idiocy among American and European filmmakers in the 1990s and the growing interest in its often overlooked history, this book offers a timely reassessment of idiocy and its distinctive place at the intersection of science and culture.People with mental disabilities in literaturePeople with mental disabilities in motion picturesFiction19th centuryHistory and criticismFiction20th centuryHistory and criticismPeople with mental disabilities in literature.People with mental disabilities in motion pictures.FictionHistory and criticism.FictionHistory and criticism.809.8920826Halliwell Martin599987MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910958435903321Images of idiocy4475211UNINA