LEADER 04585nam 2200553 450 001 9910795154603321 005 20221015120652.0 010 $a1-4773-2494-1 010 $a1-4773-2493-3 024 7 $a10.7560/324912 035 $a(CKB)4900000001450822 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6914497 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6914497 035 $a(OCoLC)1303084778 035 $a(DE-B1597)625667 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781477324936 035 $a(PPN)265116783 035 $a(EXLCZ)994900000001450822 100 $a20221015d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aAutism in film and television $eon the island /$fedited by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer 210 1$aAustin, Texas :$cUniversity of Texas Press,$d[2022] 210 4$d©2022 215 $a1 online resource (337 pages) 311 $a1-4773-2491-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPREFACE Two Meditations -- $tCHAPTER 1 Autistic Android? The Curious Instance of Star Trek?s Data -- $tCHAPTER 2 Life, Animated: Adapting a Book about a Hero with Autism -- $tCHAPTER 3 Where Is the Autism in Rain Man? -- $tCHAPTER 4 The Good Doctor: Images of Autism and Augmented Intelligence -- $tCHAPTER 5 Oddity and Catastrophe in The Big Short -- $tCHAPTER 6 Diagnosing the Detective: Sherlock Holmes and Autism in Contemporary Television -- $tCHAPTER 7 She?s So Unusual: The Autist in Stranger Things -- $tCHAPTER 8 Autism, Performance, and Sociality: Isolated Attention in The Social Network -- $tCHAPTER 9 Hidden Worlds of Female Autism -- $tCHAPTER 10 Eye Contact in Juárez: Borderline Empathy and the Autistic Detective -- $tCHAPTER 11 The Creative Evolution and Reception of Netfl ix?s Atypical -- $tCHAPTER 12 Community?s Human Laugh Track: Neurodiversity in a Metamodern Sitcom -- $tCHAPTER 13 Portrait of the Autist as a Young Man -- $tCHAPTER 14 Due Diligence: Exploring ASD in Nightcrawler and The Accountant -- $tCHAPTER 15 Mind the Gap: Autistic Viewpoint in Film -- $tCHAPTER 16 Performative Restraint and the Challenges of Empathy in Being There and Phantom Thread -- $tCHAPTER 17 ?A Spoonful of Sugar?: Watching Movies Autistically -- $tCHAPTER 18 David and Lisa: The Healing Power of the Group -- $tCHAPTER 19 Jesse: Torture That Autist -- $tWorks Cited and Consulted -- $tPhoto Captions and Credits -- $tContributors -- $tIndex 330 $aGlobal awareness of autism has skyrocketed since the 1980s, and popular culture has caught on, with film and television producers developing ever more material featuring autistic characters. Autism in Film and Television brings together more than a dozen essays on depictions of autism, exploring how autistic characters are signified in media and how the reception of these characters informs societal understandings of autism. Editors Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer have assembled a pioneering examination of autism?s portrayal in film and television. Contributors consider the various means by which autism has been expressed in films such as Phantom Thread, Mercury Rising, and Life Animated and in television and streaming programs including Atypical, Stranger Things, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Community. Across media, the figure of the brilliant, accomplished, and ?quirky? autist has proven especially appealing. Film and television have thus staked out a progressive position on neurodiversity by insisting on screen time for autism but have done so while frequently ignoring the true diversity of autistic experience. As a result, this volume is a welcome celebration of nonjudgmental approaches to disability, albeit one that is still freighted with stereotypes and elisions. 606 $aAutism in motion pictures 606 $aAutistic people 606 $aAutism on television 610 $aautism, autism and the media, autism and American culture, autism and American media, neurodiversity, disability, autism spectrum disorder, autism spectrum, film, television studies, film studies. 615 0$aAutism in motion pictures. 615 0$aAutistic people. 615 0$aAutism on television. 676 $a704.0874 702 $aPalmer$b R. Barton$f1946- 702 $aPomerance$b Murray$f1946- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795154603321 996 $aAutism in film and television$93828636 997 $aUNINA