TDR/The Drama Review · 2007 · 23 citations · 3 references
Social SciencesFilm StudiesPerformance StudiesDisabilityNarratologyRhetoricDisability HistoryDisability IdentityDisability RepresentationDisability Studies TheoryWheelchair DesignWheelchair UseCritical Disability StudiesDisability ImageryDisabled Identity In LiteratureFilm Representation Of DisabilityIntersectional Disability RepresentationLiterary Representation Of DisabilityMedia Representation Of Disability
How can the wheelchair be other than a placeholder for tragedy or negativity? Kuppers examines the wheelchair as a prop and as a playground of multiple intersecting narratives, desires, textures, and signs in Murderball, Guillermo Gómez-Peña's Museum of Fetishized Identities, and the X-Men movies.
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