LEADER 03128oam 2200613I 450 001 9910958435903321 005 20251117090030.0 010 $a1-138-27582-4 010 $a1-315-25270-8 010 $a1-351-92884-8 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315252704 035 $a(CKB)3710000001081548 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4817515 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4817515 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11356673 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL997203 035 $a(OCoLC)975223025 035 $a(OCoLC)988385481 035 $a(BIP)58362672 035 $a(BIP)8580029 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001081548 100 $a20180706e20162004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aImages of idiocy $ethe idiot figure in modern fiction and film /$fMartin Halliwell 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (281 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aFirst published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing. 311 08$a0-7546-0265-6 311 08$a1-351-92885-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references, index and filmography. 327 $apt. I. Idiocy in the nineteenth century -- pt. II. Idiocy and modernism -- pt. III. Idiocy after World War II. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aPeople with mental disabilities in literature 606 $aPeople with mental disabilities in motion pictures 606 $aFiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aPeople with mental disabilities in literature. 615 0$aPeople with mental disabilities in motion pictures. 615 0$aFiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809.8920826 700 $aHalliwell$b Martin$0599987 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910958435903321 996 $aImages of idiocy$94475211 997 $aUNINA