COGN150: Mediated Ability: [Dis]ability and Audio-Visual Culture

UCSD Dept of Communication
Spring 2009
Fridays: 9 AM - 11:50 AM
Professor:  Brian Goldfarb
Office Hours: Wed 10:30-12pm, room MCC 205
Contact: bgoldfarb at sign ucsd . edu

Overview:

This course considers the ways in which ability and disability is conceived, represented, and negotiated. Weekly discussions and screenings will examine mainstream media representations (from Hollywood and Network/Cable TV) alternative film/video, educational and internet-based media as well as assistive technologies.

Requirements:

  • Attendance is mandatory. Any unexcused absences will negatively impact your participation grade.

  • Weekly readings (approx 30-50 pages) and film/video viewing (UCSD film library reserve).

  • In response to each weekÕs reading/screenings, students must posting one or two discussion points on WebCT prior to class.

  • Each student will be responsible for preparing a short presentation and leading short discussion for one of the weekly topics or one of the optional topics listed at the bottom of the syllabus. This will be done in groups of 2-3.

  • A 10-15 page research paper based on one of the topics studied or other topic closely related to the theme of the course. A one page-proposal for the paper is due in week 5 and a first draft by week 8. Final term paper due the last week of class.
 
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Assessment:
  • Participation in class discussions and on WebCT: 20%
  • Class presentation 30%
  • Term Paper 50%
Required Texts: (Available at UCSD bookstore)
  • Mairian Corker and Tom Schakespeare, Disability/Postmodernity. ISBN: 978-0826450555 (Abbreviated as D/S in the Course Schedule)
  • Georgina Kleege, Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller, ISBN: 978-1563682957
  • Additional articles on e-Reserves or linked to the syllabus/WebCT

 

Course Schedule:

Notes: Weekly topics for weeks 6-10 will be selected from those listed below week 5, and will be announced in the first few weeks of class. Weekly readings will be selected from those listed in advance of class by the instructor through discussion with participants. Some optional readings will be summarized and discussed by presenters. Readings are due before the class each week.
Essays in Mairian Corker and Tom Schakespeare, Disability/Postmodernity. are marked: D/S

week: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  | 5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10

WEEK 1 (April 3) : Defining Ability, Impairment, Handicap and Disability. Discussion:Class overview, structure and expectations

Key concepts:

  • Disability studies
  • Disability as historical and contextual: labor, health, difference.
  • The Social vs Medical Model.
  • Media as an arena of representation
  • Media as barrier
  • Media as prosthesis
  • Media as organizing tool
  • Media as space of community

Films/Media:

  • Billy Golfus and David E. Simpson, When Billy Broke His Head--and Other Tales of Wonder
WEEK 2 (April 10): (in)visible (dis)abililty. How is disability recognized, expressed? How is it made visible? How are expectations of capacity articulated and assessed,? Who is disabled—individuals or groups? What is the regime that governs responses to levels of capacity? How is disability embodied? What is disability studies and who is it for?

Readings:

  • Carol Thoman and Mairian Corker "A Journey around the Social Model" D/P
  • Sally French, "The Wind Gets in My Way," Disability Discourse, Ed, Mairian Corker and Sally French. (pp 21-27)
  • Carol Padden, "Talking Culture: Deaf People and Disability Studies"

Optional Readings:

  • Paul Jaeger and Cynthia Ann Bowman, "Ch 2: Social Classification of Reactions to Disability" (pp9-23); in Understanding Disability: Inclusion Access, Diversity and Civil Rights ER
  • Joan Callahan, "Americans with Disabilities:  Exploring Implications of the Law for Individuals and Institutions"
  • Mike Oliver, "Defining Impairment And Disability: Issues At Stake"

Films/Media:

  • TBA
WEEK 2B (Presentation Group) : Beyond the Medical Model

Readings Selected from the Following:

  • Bradley A. Areheart,  "When Disability IsnÕt "Just Right": The Entrenchment of the Medical Model of Disability and the Goldilocks Dilemma"
  • David Hevey, "Ch2: Social Life or Medical Death," (pp9-17), The Creatures Time Forgot ER
  • Jessica Evans, "Ch9: Little Stephan," (pp134-141), in David Hevey, The Creatures Time Forgot ER
  • Steven Selden "Eugenics And The Social Construction of Merit, Race And Disability"
  • Sander Gilman "The Fat Detective," in Cultural Studies, Medicine and Media, ed, Lester Friedman (pp 234-243). ER
WEEK 3 (April 17): Representations in the Mainstream Media

Readings:

  • John Davis and Nick Watson, "Countering Sterotypes of Disability: Disabled Children and Resistance" D/P
  • Jack Nelson, "Broken Images: Portrayals of Those with Disabilities in American Media," The Disabled, the Media, and the Information Age, Ed, Jack Nelson (pp 1-24) ER
  • Tom Shakespeare, "Arts and Lies? Representations of Disability on Film," Disability Discourse, Ed, Mairian Corker and Sally French. (pp 164-172) ER
  • Colin Barnes, "Disabling Imagery and The Media: An Exploration of the Principles for Media Representations of Disabled People"

Optional Readings:

  • Allen Rucker, "The Gimp Media Revolution"
  • Deni Elliott, "Disability and the Media: The Ethics of the Matter," The Disabled, the Media, and the Information Age, Ed, Jack Nelson (pp 73-79) ER
  • Charles A Riley II, Disability and the Media, "Ch1: Heroes of Assimilation: How the Media Transform Disability" (1-23) "Ch5: and HereÕs the Pitch: How Advertising Uses Disability" (209-229); "Appendix A: Guidelines for Portraying People with Disabilities in the Media" (219-223); ER
  • Lynne Roper, "Disability in Media"
  • Vic Finkelstein "Outside, ÔInside OutÕ" (British Channel 4 program)
  • Brian Sweeney, "BBC Radio 4 and the Experiential Dimension of Disability"
  • Michael Davidson, "Phantom Limbs: Film Noir and the Disabled Body"
  • Kathleen Ellis, "You Look Normal To Me: The Social Construction of Disability in Australian National Cinema in the 1990s"
  • Real Live Media, "Guide for Reporting about People with Learning Disabilities"
Films/Media:

  • Hal Ashby, Coming Home (1978) --View at film Library


WEEK 4 (April 24): The Horror of Difference and Disfigurement

Readings:

  • Meira Cook, "None of US: Ambiguity as Moral Discourse in Tod BrowningÕs Freaks," Screening Disability, Ed, Christopher Smit and Anthony Enns (47-56) ER
  • Sally Chivers, "The Horror of Becoming ÔOne of UsÕ: Tod BrowningÕs Freaks and Disability," Screening Disability, Ed, Christopher Smit and Anthony Enns (57-64) ER
  • Nicole Markotic, "Disabling the Viewer: Perceptions of Disability in Tod BrowningÕs Freaks," Screening Disability, Ed, Christopher Smit and Anthony Enns (65-72) ER
  • Paul Jaeger and Cynthia Ann Bowman, "Ch 8: Representations of Disability across Media" (pp103-109), in Understanding Disability: Inclusion Access, Diversity and Civil Rights ER
Films/Media:

  • Todd Browning, Freaks
  • David Lynch, The Elephant Man
  • The Hunchback of Notra Dam

WEEK 5 (May 1): Ability in a Transnational Context: regional and national differences that define capacity (labor, life needs, institutional contexts).

Readings:

  • Anita Ghai, "Disability in the Indian Context" D/P
  • James Valentine, "Naming and Narrating: Disability in Japan" D/P

Optional Readings:

  • Patrick Devlieger, "Surviving with a Disability: Strategies of Production and Reproduction in South and North"
  • Joseph Kisanji, "Attitudes and Beliefs about Disability in Tanzania"
  • Emma Stone, "Modern Slogan, Ancient Script: Impairment and Disability in the Chinese Language," Disability Discourse, Ed, Mairian Corker and Sally French. (pp 136-147) ER
  • Keld Stochholm, "Digital Denmark (for Visually Impaired Children)"
  • M‡irt’n î Cath‡in,  "ÔBlind, But Not to the Hard Facts of LifeÕ: The Blind WorkersÕ Struggle in Derry, 1928 – 1940"
  • Andrew Potok, "Neighbors," A Matter of Dignity, (219-247) ER
  • Ben-Moshe, Liat and Powell, Justin J.W., "Sign of our times? Revis(it)ing the International Symbol of Access"
  • Natalia Molina, "Medicalizing the Mexican: Immigration, Race, and Disability in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States"
  • M. Miles, "Disability on a Different Model: glimpses of an Asian heritage"
  • Miho Iwakuma, "Culture, Disability, And Disability Community: Notes On Differences And Similarities Between Japan And The United States," in ATENEA XXV
  • Baorong Guo,  John Bricout, and Jin Huang, "A common open space or a digital divide? A social model perspective on the online disability community in China"
  • Kathleen Ellis, "You Look Normal To Me: The Social Construction of Disability in Australian National Cinema in the 1990s"
  • World Health Organization, "WHO Cares about Africans Living with Disability"
  • Pamela Block "Sexuality, Parenthood, and Cognitive Disability in Brazil"
  • Mohamed Mohandes, "Automatic Translation of Arabic Text to Arabic Sign Language"
  • Nathan Oyori Ogechi, Sara Jerop Ruto, "Portrayal of Disability through Personal Names and Proverbs in Kenya; Evidence from Ekegusii and Nandi"
  • Jonas Ruškus and Rasa Pocevičienė, "What Lithuanian Pupils Learn about Disability: Analysis of Attitudes and Content of Textbooks"
Films/Media:

  • Who's Going to Pay for These Donuts Anyway?
  • Goodbye SP
WEEK 6 (May 8): Intimacy and Ability:

Readings:

  • Russell Shuttelworth, "Disability and Sexuality: from Medical Model to Sexual Rights," 21st Century Sexualities, Ed, Gilbert Herdt and Cymene Howe (pp 146-148) ER
  • Tre Trefethen, "Pity Dates and the Paralyzed Playa," 21st Century Sexualities, Ed, Gilbert Herdt and Cymene Howe (pp 149-153) ER
  • Dominic Davies, "Sharing Our Stories, Empowering Our Lives: DonÕt Dis Me!"
  • Dominic Davies, "Sex and Relationship Facilitation Project for People with Disabilities"
  • Barbara Faye Waxman Fiduccia, "Sexual Imagery of Physically Disabled Women: Erotic? Perverse? Sexist?"

Optional Readings:

  • Tom Shakespeare, Kath Gillespie-Sells & Dominic Davies, "Chapter Three: Identity and Imagery," The Sexual Politics of Disability: Untold Desires
  • Tom Shakespeare, "Love, Friendship, Intimacy" in Disability Rights and Wrongs, ER
  • Tom Shakespeare, "Disabled Sexuality: Toward Rights and Recognition"
  • Per Solvang, "The Amputee Body Desired: Beauty Destabilized? Disability Re-valued?"
  • L. F. Lowenstein, "Fetishes and Their Associated Behavior"
Films/Media:

  • Rodrigo Garcia, Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her
  • Pratibha Parmar, Double the Trouble, Twice the Fun (England, 1992, 25 minutes)

Clips screened in class:

  • Kirby Dick, Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997)
WEEK 7 (May 15): Devotees and Wannabes, (and caregivers)

Readings:

  • Richard L. Bruno, "Devotees, Pretenders and Wannabes: Two Cases of Factitious Disability Disorder"
  • Raymond J. Aguilera, "Disability and Delight: Staring Back at the Devotee Community"

Optional Readings:

  • Tom Shakespeare, "The Role of Non-Disabled People in the World of Disability" in Diability Rights and Wrongs, ER
  • Eva Feder Kittay, "Dependency, Difference, and Global Ethic of Longterm Care"
  • Per Solvang, "The Amputee Body Desired: Beauty Destabilized? Disability Re-valued?"

Films/Media:

  • Quid Pro Quo
  • Whole
WEEK 8 (May 22: Access and Assistive Technology: Media as Prosthetic: Assistive Media, A/V technology, Digital Ability, Online Access

Reading:

  • John Crandell and Lee Robinson, "The Visually Handicapped Person and Technology," The Disabled, the Media, and the Information Age, Ed, Jack Nelson (pp 159-171) ER
  • Gerard Goggin, "Cellular Disability: Consumption Design and Access," Cell Phone Culture, (89-103) ER
  • Michael Smith, "Assistive Technology and Software: Liberating All of Us," The Disabled, the Media, and the Information Age, Ed, Jack Nelson (pp 127-145) ER

Optional Reading:

  • Melati Sumari, Erika Carr, and Manjerngie Ndebe-Ngovo, "Diversity, Disability, and Geographic Digital Divide"
  • Tod Chambers, "Virtual Disability," in Cultural Studies, Medicine and Media, ed, Lester Friedman (pp 386-398). ER
  • Charles A Riley II, Disability and the Media, "Ch 8: On The Web We are all Equal" (196-218); appendix B: Guidelines for Web Accessibility," (219-229); notes for each chapter (230-235) ER
  • Alison Sheldon, "Disabled People and Communication Systems in the Twenty First Century"
  • Graeme Douglas, Christine Corcoran And Sue Pavey "The Role of the WHO ICF as a Framework to Interpret Barriers and to Inclusion: Visually Impaired PeopleÕs Views and Experiences of Personal Computers"
  • Wendy Seymour, and Lupton, Deborah, "Holding the Line Online: Exploring Wired Relationships for People with Disabilities"
  • Peter Anderberg, and Jšnsson, Bodil, "Being there" (Internet and Disability)
  • Paul Jaeger and Cynthia Ann Bowman, "Ch7: Accessability and Technology: Unequal Access Online" (pp85-92) ER
  • Michael Steer and Leonie Cheetham, "Audio From Orbit: The Future Of Libraries For Individuals Who Are Blind Or Vision Impaired"
  • Stephanie Pendergrass, Margaret A. Nosek, and J. David Holcomb,  "Design and Evaluation of an Internet Site to Educate Women with Disabilities on Reproductive Health Care"
  • Bob Sapey, "Disablement in the Informational Age"
  • Baorong Guo,  John Bricout, and Jin Huang, "A common open space or a digital divide? A social model perspective on the online disability community in China"
  • Michele White, "Television and Internet Differences by Design: Rendering Liveness, Presence, and Lived Space"
  • Alistair Lee and Guy Morrow "Related Technology Disabling Web Designers: Issues Surrounding Disabled People's Use of Web"
  • Mohamed Mohandes, "Automatic Translation of Arabic Text to Arabic Sign Language"
Films/Media:

  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  • web sites to view

WEEK 9 (May 29): Ability, Image and Art; and Creativity/Productivity/Inclusion

Reading:

  • Sharon Snyder, "Infinities of Forms: Disability Figures in Artistic Traditions," Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities, Eds, Sharon Snyder, Brenda Jo Bruggemann and Rosemarie Garland Thomason. (pp173-196) ER
  • Linda Ware, "Worlds Remade: Inclusion Through Engagement With Disability Art"
  • Rosemary Garland Thomson, "Beauty and the Freak," Points of Contact, Eds, Susan Crutchfield and Marcy Epstein (pp 181-196) ER

Optional Reading:

  • Mark Jeffreys, "The Visible Cripple," Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities, Eds, Sharon Snyder, Brenda Jo Bruggemann and Rosemarie Garland Thomason. (pp31-39) ER
  • Joseph Grigely, "Post Cards to Sophie Calle," The Body Aesthetic: From Fine Art to Body Modification, Ed, Tobin Siebers (pp17-40). ER
  • Karen Alkalay-Gut, "Ode to Bob Flanagan," Points of Contact, Eds, Susan Crutchfield and Marcy Epstein (pp 178-180) ER
  • David Hevey, "Ch3: Into the Grotto of Charity Advertising," (pp 18-29), The Creatures Time Forgot ER (Mainstream media week?)
  • David Hevey, "Ch4: Out of the Grotto," (pp 30-52), The Creatures Time Forgot ER
  • Suzanne Mahdi Wilks, "FEDA: Between Pedagogy & Politicized Art Practice" and http://www.feda.co.uk/
  • Tobin Siebers "Disability Aesthetics"
    • Katherine Sherwood, "Art, Medicine, and Disability"
  • Susan E Bell, "Living With Breast Cancer In Text And Image: Making Art To Make Sense"
  • Ann Starr, "Looking in the Mirror: Images of Abnormally Developed Infants"
Films/Media:

  • The Art of Riva Leher
WEEK 10 ( June 5): Intersections: (de)sexualizing, (de)racing, (de)culturing as Part of De-capacitating

Readings Selected from the Following:

  • Della L. Perry and Ruth Keszia Whiteside, "Women, Gender And ÔDisabilityÕ Historical And Contemporary Intersections Of ÔOthernessÕ"
  • Steven Selden, "Eugenics and the social construction of merit, race and disability"
  • Adrienne Asch, "Critical Race Theory, Feminism, and Disability: Reflections on Social Justice and Personal Identity"
  • Beth Ferri, "Changing the Script: Race and Disability in Lynn Manning's ÔWeightsÕ"
  • Steven Selden, "Eugenics and the social construction of merit, race and disability"
  • Deborah Stienstra, "The Intersection of DISABILITY and Race/Ethnicity/Official Language/Religion"
  • Jennifer Pokempner and Dorothy Roberts, "Poverty, Welfare Reform, and the Meaning of Disability"
Films/Media:

  • TBA


Some Other Possible Topics (for Presentations or Papers):

WEEK ? : Memory and Cognitive Ability

Readings Selected from the Following:

  • Sue Boazman, "Inside Aphasia," Disability Discourse, Ed, Mairian Corker and Sally French. (pp 15-20) ER
  • Susan Gabel, "Depressed and Disabled: Some Discursive Problems with Mental Illness," Disability Discourse, Ed, Mairian Corker and Sally French. (pp 38-46) ER
  • Laura Lorenz, "Discovering a new identity after brain injury: A visual illness narrative"
  • Pamela Block "Sexuality, Parenthood, and Cognitive Disability in Brazil"
  • Alicia Broderick, and Ne'eman, Ari, "Autism As Metaphor: Narrative And Counter-Narrative"
  • Sara O'Neil, "The Meaning Of Autism: Beyond Disorder"
Films/Media:

  • TBA
WEEK ? : Disability and Performance

Readings Selected from the Following:

  • Rosemarie Garland Thomson, "Dares to Stares: Disable Women Performance Artists & the Dynamics of Staring," Bodies in Commotion, Eds, Carrie Sandall and Philip Auslander (30-41) ER
  • Jessica Berson, "Performing Deaf Identity: Toward a Continuum of Deaf Performance," Bodies in Commotion, Eds, Carrie Sandall and Philip Auslander (42-55) ER
  • Jim Ferris, "Aesthetic Distance and the Fiction of Disability," Bodies in Commotion, Eds, Carrie Sandall and Philip Auslander (56-68) ER
  • Chris Ann Strickling, "Re/Presenting the Self:  Autobiographical Performance by People with Disability"
  • Victoria Ann Lewis, "Radical Wallflowers: Disability and the PeopleÕs Theater"
Films/Media:

  • TBA

WEEK ?: Communities Shaped by Ability.

Readings:

  • Carol Padden, "Talking Culture: Deaf People and Disability Studies"
  • Georgina Kleege, Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller

Optional Readings:

  • Brown, Steven E.  1997.  "ÔOh, Don't You Envy Us Our Privileged Lives?Õ A Review Of The Disability Culture Movement."
  • Vic Finkelstein, "A Profession Allied to the Community: The disabled people's trade union" Disability And Development: Learning From Action And Research On Disability In The Majority World, Stone, E. (ed.)
  • Lennard Davis, "Deafness and the Riddle of Identity"
  • Sally French, "DonÕt look! The history of education for partially sighted children"
Films/Media:

  • TBA
WEEK ? : Ability, Identity and Activism

Readings Selected from the Following:

  • Tobin Siebers, "Chapter Two: Tender Organs, Narcissism and Identity Politics," (pp 34-52) and "Chapter 5: Disability as Masquerade," Disability Theory, (pp 97-119, and notes, pp 204-209) ER
  • Paul Jaeger and Cynthia Ann Bowman, "Ch 2: Social Classification of Reactions to Disability" (pp9-23); "Ch 6: Access and Classification of Disability in Legal Discourse" (pp75-83), in Understanding Disability: Inclusion Access, Diversity and Civil Rights ER
  • Michelle Jarman, Sharon Lamp, David Mitchell, Denise Nepveux, Nefertiti Nowell & Sharon Snyder, "Theorizing Disability as Political Subjectivity: work by the UIC Disability Collective on political Subjectivities"
  • Tobin Siebers, "Identity Politics, Then and Now"
  • John Swain & Sally French, "Towards an Affirmation Model of Disability"
Films/Media

  • TBA

WEEK ?: ability and cultural institutions: the museum, theater, etc

Readings Selected from the Following:

  • "Rethinking Disability Representation in Museums and Galleries" (Ed)
  • Jocelyn Dodd, Richard Sandell, Debbie Jolly and Ceri Jones
    • Diane F. Britton, Barbara Floyd, and Patricia A. Murphy, "Overcoming Another Obstacle: Archiving a CommunityÕs Disabled History"
  • David Serlin, "Making Disability Public: An Interview with Katherine Ott"
  • Geoffrey Swan, Teresa Meade, J. Douglass Klein,  and David Serlin, "Licking Disability: Reflections on the Politics of Postage Stamps" Amanda Kyser Bryan, "New Museum Theory In Practice: A Case Study Of The American Visionary Art Museum And The Representation Of Disability" Wendy Constantine, "Museums and the ÔDigital Curb CutÕ" http://www.museotech.com/?page_id=29
  • Blind at the Museum (Exhibition notes)
  • Seeing beyond Sight: Photos by Blind Teenagers http://www.seeingbeyondsight.org/links/index.htm

WEEK ? : Cyborgs and Super Crips

Readings Selected from the Following:

  • Johnson Cheu, "Degenerates, Replicants and Other Aliens: (re)deining Disability in Futuristicv Film" D/P
  • Jennifer Parker Starbuck "Shifting Strengths: The Cyborg Theater of Cathy Weis," Bodies in Commotion, Eds, Carrie Sandall and Philip Auslander (95-108) ER
  • Rebecca Raphael, "The Doomsday Body, or Dr. Strangelove as Disabled Cyborg"
  • Jacquelyn Ford Morie, "Meaning and Emplacement in Expressive Immersive Virtual Environments"
  • Nickianne Moody, "Untapped Potential: The Representation of Disability/Special Ability in the Cyberpunk Workforce"
Films/Media:

  • TBA


WEEK ? : Disability and Representations of Dependency/Interdependency. Independence as the child and adult distinction? (inclusion, independent living)

Readings Selected from the Following:

  • Sally French and John Swain, "Housing:  The UsersÕ Perspective"
  • Gail Landsman, "Mothers and Models of Disability"

WEEK ? : Disability and Loss; Aging; Trauma

WEEK ? : Media Facilitating Pity and Empathy

WEEK ? : Legal and Ethical Alternatives: Privilege, Entitlement, Rights, Accommodation, and Beyond

Film/Videography:

Todd Browning, Freaks

Sharon Snyder and David Mitchell, Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back

Shahar Rozen, Liebe, Perla

Josh Aronson, Sound and Fury

Jessica Yu, Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark OÕ Brien

Diane Garey and Lawrence R. Hott, Through Deaf Eyes

Neil Marcus and Access Theater, Storm Reading http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnIkMdy2GiM

Southpark: Timmy's ADD missdiagnosis Episode http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hFDrU78nd0

Pierre-Louis Levacher, Sang froid/Cold Blood (France): http://video.aol.com/video-detail/sang-froidcold-blood/902085908

Francesca Martinez (british comedian with CP): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXE-gao8NMw

Billy Golfus and David E. Simpson, When Billy Broke His Head--and Other Tales of Wonder

Michael Moore, Sicko (USA, 2007)

Erik Skjoldbjaerg, Prozac Nation (2001)

Kirby Dick, Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Suprmasochist (USA, 1997)

Kazuo Hara, Good-Bye CP (Japan, 1972)

Unique Love (China, 2005)

Frontline: The Medicated Child (USA, 2008)

Shameless: the Art of Disability

Sharon Snyder and David Mitchell, Reva Leher

Frontline: Sick around the World (USA, 2008)

Robert Arnold, The Key of G (USA, 2007)

Tierney Gearon, The Mother Project

Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby (USA, 2004)

Benoit Delepine, Aaltra (Finland, 2004)

Amber Stanton and Jeff Pratt, Till Domestic Violence Do Us Part (USA, 2005)

Carlos Brooks, Quid Pro Quo (USA, 2008)

Melody Gilbert, Whole (USA, 2003)

Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro, Murderball (USA, 2005)

Firdaus Kanga and Pratibha Parmar, Double the trouble, twice the fun (USA, 1992)

Henry Corra and Graham Weinbren, George

Deaf Culture

Susan Hadary and Bill Whiteford, King Gimp

Ellen Goosenberg Kent, I Have Tourette's, but Tourette's DoesnÕt Have Me

Barry Levinson, Rain Man (USA, 1988)

David Lynch, The Elephant Man (USA, 1980)

Hunchback of Notre Dam

Irene Ward, A little history worth knowing (USA, 1998)

Randa Haines, Children of a Lesser God (USA, 1984)

Rodrigo Garcia, Things You Can Tell Without Even Talking to Her

Lewis Milestone, Of Mice and Men (USA, 1939)

Nadia Tass, The Miracle Worker (2000)

Paul Aaron, The Miracle Worker (USA, 1979)

Arthur Penn, The Miracle Worker (USA, 1962)

Robert Zemeckis, Forest Gump (USA, 1994)

Gary Sinise, Of Mice and Men (USA, 1992)

Jean Negulesco, Johnny Belinda (USA, 1948)

Nicholas Philibert, In the Land of the Deaf (France, 1992)

Frederick Wiseman, Blind (USA, 1986)

Frederick Wiseman, Deaf (USA, 1986)

Julian Schnabbel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (France, 2008)

Logan Smalley, Darius Goes West (2007)

John Huston Let there be light (1948)

Oliver Stone, Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

Hal Ashby, Coming Home (1978)