Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Chivers, Sally, 1972-
2. Markotić, Nicole.

Description

1. xi, 239 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

1. People with disabilities in motion pictures
2. Human body in motion pictures
3. Sociology of disability

Contents

1. "The whole art of a wooden leg" : King Vidor's picturization of Laurence Stallings's "Great story" / Timothy Barnard -- Phantom limbs : noir and the disabled body / Michael Davidson -- Seeing blindness on-screen : the blind, female gaze / Johnson Cheu -- The wild child / Dawne McCance -- No life anyway : pathologizing disability on film / Paul Darke -- "And death--capital D--shall be no more--semicolon!" : explicating the terminally ill body in Margaret Edson's W;t / Heath Diehl -- "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 / Eunjung Kim -- Neoliberal risks : Million dollar baby, Murderball, and anti-national sexual positions / Robert McRuer -- Body genres : an anatomy of disability in film / Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell -- "Blinded by the light," or : Where's the rest of me? / Anne Finger.

Call number

1. MFL 10-5645

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Title

1. The problem body : projecting disability on film / edited by Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotić.

Imprint

1. Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2010.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Added author

1. Chivers, Sally, 1972-
2. Markotić, Nicole.

LCCN

1. 2009052781

ISBN

1. 9780814211243 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 0814211240 (cloth : alk. paper)
3. 9780814292228 (CD-ROM)
4. 0814292224 (CD-ROM)

Research call number

1. MFL 10-5645