Course Schedule:
Notes: Weekly topics and readings listed here are provisional and may be updated after the course begins--please check this site weekly for updates. Some weeks list a number of readings--required readings will be selected from those listed by the instructor through discussion with participants. Some optional readings will be summarized and discussed by presenters. Participants are required to complete the readings and post discussion points to WebCT by 6pm on the Wednesday brefore class each week.
week: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
WEEK 1 (Jan 6) : Class
overview.
Discussion: uneasy terms: ability, impairment, handicap
and disability.
Key
concepts:
- Disability Studies, an Interdisciplinary Area
- Conceptions of disability are historically, regionally and
culturally variable.
- The Social Model vs Medical Model
- Media as an arena of identity representation
- Media as barrier
- Media as prosthesis
- Media as tool for activism/political organizing
- Media as space of community
Films/Media:
- View in class:
Billy Golfus and David E. Simpson, When Billy Broke His Head--and Other Tales of Wonder
WEEK 2 (Jan 13): Models that Frame Understandings and Experiences of (Dis)ability. How is
disability recognized, expressed? How are expectations
of capacity articulated and felt? How do individuals and groups become identified as disabled?
Readings:
-
Mike
Oliver, "Defining Impairment And Disability: Issues At Stake"
- 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"
- Neil Marcus, "Disable Country" (poem online)
- Georgina Kleege, Blind Rage, part 1 (pp 1-23)
Presentation Group to select from the
following optional readings:
- Tom Shakespeare, "Just Around the Corner: the Quest for Cure," in Disability Rights and Wrongs
- 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
- Susan Schweik, "Begging the Question: Disability, Mendicancy, Speech and the Law"
- Tanya Titchkosky, "Disability: A Rose by Any Other Name? "People-First" Language in Canadian Society"
- Joan
Callahan, "Americans with Disabilities: Exploring Implications of the Law for Individuals and
Institutions"
- Carol
Thoman and Mairian Corker "A Journey around the Social Model" Disability/Postmodernity
- Bradley
A. Areheart, "When Disability
Isn’t '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 E
- 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"
- TanyaTitchkosky, "GoverningEmbodiment:Technologies of ConstitutingCitizens with Disabilities"
- Tanya Titchkosky, “'To Pee or Not To Pee?' Ordinary Talk about Extraordinary Exclusions in a University Environment"
Films/Media:
- Laurence Hott and Diane Garey, Through Deaf Eyes (USA, 2007) --View prior to class
- Clips shown in class:
- Robert Arnold, The Key of G
WEEK 3 (Jan 20): Mainstream Media
Representations of Disability
Readings:
- John Davis and Nick Watson, "Countering Stereotypes of Disability: Disabled Children and Resistance" Ereserves
- Jack
Nelson, "Broken Images: Portrayals of Those with Disabilities in American
Media"
- Tom
Shakespeare, "Art and Lies? Representations of Disability on Film"
- Georgina Kleege, Blind Rage, part 1 (pp 24-44)
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
- Hayes and Black, "Troubling Signs: Disability, Hollywood Movies and the Construction of a Discourse of Pity" available online
-
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"
- Colin
Barnes, "Disabling Imagery and the Media: An Exploration of the Principles
for Media Representations of Disabled People"
Films/Media:
-
Hal Ashby, Coming Home (1978) --View prior to class
- Clips shown in class
- John Badham, Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
- Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby (2004
WEEK 4 (Jan 27): The Horror/Pleasure 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)
- Sally
Chivers, "The Horror of Becoming ÔOne of UsÕ: Tod BrowningÕs Freaks and Disability," Screening Disability, Ed, Christopher Smit and Anthony Enns (57-64)
- Nicole
Markotic, "Disabling the Viewer: Perceptions of Disability in Tod
BrowningÕs Freaks," Screening
Disability, Ed, Christopher Smit and
Anthony Enns (65-72)
- Paul
Jaeger and Cynthia Ann Bowman, "Ch 8: Representations of Disability across
Media" (pp103-109), in Understanding Disability: Inclusion Access,
Diversity and Civil Rights
- Georgina Kleege, Blind Rage, (pp 45-59)
Optional Readings:
- Bogdan, "The Social Construction of Freaks"
- Stephens, "Twenty-First Century Freak Show: Recent Transformations in the Exhibition of Non-Normative Bodies " available online
- Howells and Chemers, " Midget Cities: Utopia, Utopianism, and the Vor-schein of the 'Freak' Show" available online
- Crutchfield, 'Play[ing] her part correctly': Helen Keller as Vaudevillian Freak" available online
- Millet, "Exceeding the Frame: The Photography of Diane Arbus" available online
- Haller and Ralph, "Profitability, Diversity, and Disability Images in Advertising in the United States and Great Britain" available online
Films/Media:
-
Todd
Browning, Freaks--View prior to class (also on youtube in 5 parts--part 1)
- Clips shown in class:
- David Lynch, The Elephant Man
- The
Hunchback of Notra Dam
WEEK 5 (Feb 3): Staring and Looking: Visual Interactions Across and Around Difference
Readings:
-
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson,
"Ways of Staring"
- Tobin Siebers, "The Aesthetics of Human Disqualification" (lecture audio; transcript; images)
- Georgina Kleege, Blind Rage, (pp 60-76)
Optional Reading:
- Eliza Chandler, "Sidewalk Stories: The Troubling Task of Identification" (read online)
- Sandell et al, " In The Shadow of the Freakshow: The Impact of Freakshow Tradition on the Display and Understanding of Disability History in Museums" online
- Susan Schweik, "Begging the Question: Disability, Mendicancy, Speech and the Law"
Films/Media:
-
Tami Gold with Jennifer Miller, Juggling Gender (1992) View in Arts Library prior to class
- Kevin Connolly's Photography: The Rolling Exhibition
WEEK 6 (Feb 10): Ability in a Transnational Context: Regional and National Differences
that Define Capacity
Readings:
-
Anita
Ghai, "Disability in the Indian Context," Disability/Postmodernity Ereserves
- James Valentine, "Naming and Narrating: Disability in Japan," Disability/Postmodernity Ereserves
- Georgina Kleege, Blind Rage, (pp77-92)
Optional Readings:
- Tanya Titchkosky and Katie Aubrecht, "The Anguish of Power: Remapping Mental Diversity with an Anticolonial Compass"
- Patrick
Devlieger, "Surviving with a Disability: Strategies of Production and
Reproduction in South and North"
- Michael Davidson, "Universal Design: The Work of Disability in the Age of Globalization" Ereserves
-
Joseph
Kisanji, "Attitudes and Beliefs about Disability in Tanzania"
- Emma
Stone, "Modern Slogan, Ancient Script: Impairment and Disability in the
Chinese Language"
- 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:
-
Robert Lemelson and Dag Yngvesson, Movement and Madness (2006)--View prior to class
- Kazuo Hara, Goodbye
CP (Japan, 1972)--Clips shown in class
- Janice Tanaka, Who's
Going to Pay for These Donuts Anyway? (USA, 1992) Clips shown in class
WEEK 7 (Feb 17): Intimacy and Ability
Readings:
- Tom
Shakespeare, "Love, Friendship, Intimacy" in Disability Rights and Wrongs
- Russell
Shuttelworth, "Disability and Sexuality: from Medical Model to Sexual
Rights,"
- 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!"
- Barbara
Faye Waxman Fiduccia, "Sexual Imagery of Physically Disabled Women:
Erotic? Perverse? Sexist?"
- The Gimp Parade blog post on disability porn
- Georgina Kleege, Blind Rage, (pp 93-115)
Optional Readings:
- Elizabeth Mariko Murray and Sarah Helaine Jacobs, "Revealing Moments: Representations of Disability and Sexuality" ER
- Tom
Shakespeare, Kath Gillespie-Sells & Dominic Davies, "Chapter Three:
Identity and Imagery," The Sexual Politics of Disability: Untold
Desires
- Petra Kuppers, "Tiresian Journeys"
- Tom
Shakespeare, "Disabled Sexuality: Toward Rights and Recognition"
- Hamilton, "Doing the Wild Thing"
- Per
Solvang, "The Amputee Body Desired: Beauty Destabilized? Disability Re-valued?"
- L.
F. Lowenstein, "Fetishes and Their Associated Behavior"
- Kuppers et al-"OracuLar Practice, Crip Bodies and the Poetry of Collaboration"
Films/Media:
- To be shown during class time: This American Life, Season 2 Episode 1: "Escape" on Micahel Phelps
- Other Clips screened in class:
- Petra Kuppers and Sadie Wilcox, Tiresias, (USA, 2007)
- Pratibha Parmar, Double the Trouble, Twice the Fun (England, 1992, 25 minutes)
- Rodrigo
Garcia, Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her
- Kirby Dick, Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997)
WEEK 8 (Feb 24): 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"
- Georgina Kleege, Blind Rage, (pp 115-130)
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 --View prior to class
- Whole
- Feb 23, talk by Sue Schweik, author of The Ugly Laws
WEEK 9 (March 3): Access and Assistive Technology: Media as
Prosthetic, Digital Ability, Access and Universal Design
Reading:
- Gerard
Goggin, "Cellular Disability: Consumption Design and Access," Cell
Phone Culture, (89-103)
- Graham Pullin, Design Meets Disability, "Introduction" (pp1-38),"Identity Meets Ability" (89-109), "Expression Meets Information" (157-179)
Optional Reading:
- Michael
Smith, "Assistive Technology and Software: Liberating All of Us," The
Disabled, the Media, and the Information Age, Ed, Jack Nelson (pp 127-145)
- Melati Sumari, Erika Carr, and
Manjerngie Ndebe-Ngovo, "Diversity, Disability, and Geographic Digital
Divide"
- 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)
-
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)ER
- Seelman, "Universal Design and Orphan Technology: Do We Need Both?" available online
- 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) in Understanding Disability
- 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:
- Clips shown in class:
- Jamie Stobie, Freedom Machines (2004)
- Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Josh Aronson, The Sound and the Fury (2000)
- web sites to view
WEEK 10 (March 10):
Creativity/Productivity/Inclusion: Art Mediating Ability
Reading:
- Sharon
Snyder, "Infinities of Forms: Disability Figures in Artistic Traditions"
- Linda
Ware, "Worlds Remade: Inclusion Through Engagement With Disability Art"
Optional Reading:
-
Rosemarie
Garland-Thomson, "Beauty and the Freak," Points of Contact, Eds, Crutchfield and Epstein (pp
181-196)
- Nicholas Mirzoeff, "Blindness and Art," The Disibility Studies Reader ER
- Mark
Jeffreys, "The Visible Cripple," Disability Studies: Enabling the
Humanities, Eds, Snyder, Bruggemann and 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, Crutchfield and Epstein (pp
178-180) ER
- David
Hevey, "Ch3: Into the Grotto of Charity Advertising," (pp 18-29), The
Creatures Time Forgot ER
- 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:
- Sharon Snyder and David Mitchell,
Self-Preservation: The
Art of Riva Lehrer
- Bonnie Sherr Klein, Shameless, the Art of Disability (2006)
AlternateWeek 10 ( March 10): 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 'Disability'
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"
- Beth Ferri and David Conner, "Tools of Exclusion: Race, Disability, and (Re)segregated Education"
- 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:
Final Paper Due: Thursday, March 17th by 6pm
Some Other Possible Topics for Presentations or Papers):
Representing Cognitive Ability
Readings:
-
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"
Disability and Performance
Readings:
-
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"
Communities Shaped by Ability.
Readings:
-
Carol
Padden, "Talking Culture: Deaf People and Disability Studies"
- Georgina
Kleege, Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller
- 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"
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"
Ability and Access to Cultural institutions: the museum,
theater, etc
Readings:
-
"Rethinking
Disability Representation in Museums and Galleries"
- 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
Cyborgs and Super Crips
Readings:
-
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"
Disability and Representations of
Dependency/Interdependency.
(inclusion, independent living)
Readings Selected from the
Following:
-
Sally
French and John Swain, "Housing: The UsersÕ Perspective"
- Gail
Landsman, "Mothers and Models of Disability"
Disability and Loss; Aging; Trauma
Media, Pity,
and Empathy
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)
Elisa Down, The Black Balloon (2008)
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