Screening disability : essays on cinema and disability

Abstract

1 Acknowledgments 2 Introduction: The State of Cinema and Disability Studies 3 Theorizing Cinema and Disability 4 Screening Stereotypes: Images of Disabled People 5 The Hollywood Discourse on Disability: Some Personal Reflections 6 The Fusion of Film Studies and Disability Studies 7 Disability as Monstrosity in Classical Hollywood Cinema: Tod Browning and The Hunchback of Notre Dame 8 None of Ambiguity as Moral Discourse in Tod Browning's Freaks 9 The Horror of Becoming One of Us: Tod Browning's Freaks and Disability 10 Disabling the Viewer: Perceptions of Disability in Tod Browning's Freaks 11 Tod Browning and the Monstrosity of Hollywood Style 12 Lost and Found in Translation: The Changing Faces of Disability in the Film Adaptations of Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris: 1842 13 Disability as Trauma, Mental Illness, and Dysfunction in Post-Vietnam Cinema 14 Trapped in the Affection-Image: American Cinema's Post-Traumatic Cycle (1970-1976) 15 The Inner Life of Ordinary People 16 Disability and the Dysfunctional Family in Wayne Wang's Smoke 17 Disability as Spectacle in Contemporary Cinema 18 The Noble Ruined Body: Blindness and Visual Prosthetics in Three Science Fiction Films 19 The Spectacle of Disabled Masculinity in John Woo's Heroic Bloodshed Films 20 Sexy Cyborgs: Disability and Erotic Politics in Cronenberg's Crash 21 Index 22 About the Contributors