The Problem Body : Projecting Disability in Film /
The Problem Body : Projecting Disability in Film /
edited by Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotić.
- 1 online resource (239 pages): illustrations
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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 / "Blinded by the light," or : Where's the rest of me? / Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotić -- Timothy Barnard -- Michael Davidson -- Johnson Cheu -- Dawne McCance -- Paul Darke -- Heath Diehl -- Eunjung Kim -- Robert McRuer -- Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell -- Anne Finger.
Open Access
"To call into question why certain bodies invite the label "problem" more frequently than other bodies, the contributors draw on scholarship from feminist, race, queer, cultural, disability, and film studies arenas. In Chivers and Markotic's introduction, they draw on disability theory and a range of cinematic examples to explain the term "problem body" in relation to its "projection." In explorations of film noir, illness narratives, classical Hollywood film, Korean film, and European film, the essays reveal the "problem body" as a multiplication of lived circumstances constructed both physically and socially"--Book jacket. "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., and Canada 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 of the portrayal of disability on film combined with a much-needed rethinking of hierarchies of difference. The editors turned to the existing corpus of disability theory with its impressive insights about the social and cultural mediation of disabled bodies. They then sought, from scholars at every stage of their careers, new ideas about how disabled bodies coexist with a range of other bodies (gendered, queered, racialized, classed, etc.)."
English.
9780814270851
Bibel--Philemonbrief
Film.
Körperbehinderung
Sociology of disability.
People with disabilities in motion pictures.
Human body in motion pictures.
People with disabilities.
PERFORMING ARTS--Film & Video--History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS--Reference.
Cinema.
Personnes handicapees.
Handicap--Aspect sociologique.
Corps humain au cinema.
Personnes handicapees au cinema.
Sociological Factors
Body Image
Human Body
Motion Pictures
Disabled Persons
People with disabilities.
Sociology of disability.
Human body in motion pictures.
People with disabilities in motion pictures.
Critiques cinematographiques.
Film criticism.
Film criticism.
Electronic books.
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 / "Blinded by the light," or : Where's the rest of me? / Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotić -- Timothy Barnard -- Michael Davidson -- Johnson Cheu -- Dawne McCance -- Paul Darke -- Heath Diehl -- Eunjung Kim -- Robert McRuer -- Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell -- Anne Finger.
Open Access
"To call into question why certain bodies invite the label "problem" more frequently than other bodies, the contributors draw on scholarship from feminist, race, queer, cultural, disability, and film studies arenas. In Chivers and Markotic's introduction, they draw on disability theory and a range of cinematic examples to explain the term "problem body" in relation to its "projection." In explorations of film noir, illness narratives, classical Hollywood film, Korean film, and European film, the essays reveal the "problem body" as a multiplication of lived circumstances constructed both physically and socially"--Book jacket. "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., and Canada 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 of the portrayal of disability on film combined with a much-needed rethinking of hierarchies of difference. The editors turned to the existing corpus of disability theory with its impressive insights about the social and cultural mediation of disabled bodies. They then sought, from scholars at every stage of their careers, new ideas about how disabled bodies coexist with a range of other bodies (gendered, queered, racialized, classed, etc.)."
English.
9780814270851
Bibel--Philemonbrief
Film.
Körperbehinderung
Sociology of disability.
People with disabilities in motion pictures.
Human body in motion pictures.
People with disabilities.
PERFORMING ARTS--Film & Video--History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS--Reference.
Cinema.
Personnes handicapees.
Handicap--Aspect sociologique.
Corps humain au cinema.
Personnes handicapees au cinema.
Sociological Factors
Body Image
Human Body
Motion Pictures
Disabled Persons
People with disabilities.
Sociology of disability.
Human body in motion pictures.
People with disabilities in motion pictures.
Critiques cinematographiques.
Film criticism.
Film criticism.
Electronic books.