Note: This set of weekly topics, readings, and viewing material is provisional and may change. Please check the online syllabus weekly for updated reading and viewing assignments (be sure to refresh your browser to see the most recent version).
ER = Text and Film on EReservses • LC = Electronic Texts or Film in Library Catalog • TE = Text or Film on TritonEd
week: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
Week One (Jan 12): Models and Meanings of [Dis]Ability
Course overview
- Media as an arena of disability identity/representation
- Media as barrier
- Media as prosthesis
- Media as tool for activism/political organizing
- Media as space of community
Read:
- Simi Linton, "Reassigning Meaning," in Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity (NYU Press, 1998) LC, TE
- Lennard Davis, "Normality, Power, and Culture" in The Disability Studies Reader (Routledge, 2014) TE
- "Medicalization", "Disability" and "Ability" in Keywords for Disability Studies. eds, Adams, Reiss & Serlin, (NYU Press, 2015) LC, TE
Further reading:
- The Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation and The Disability Alliance discuss "Fundamental Principles of Disability"
- Carol Thomas and Mairian Corker, "A Journey around the Social Model" Disability/Postmodernity (18-30)
- Thomas Couser, "Disability, Life Narative, and Representation" (399-401) in The Disability Studies Reader, ed, L Davis
- Tobin Siebers, "Disability and the Theory of Complex Embodiment" in The Disability Studies Reader, ed, L Davis
View before class:
- Kazuo Hara, Goodbye CP (Japan, 1972) [Sayonara CP]
- First 40 minutes of Billy Golfus and David Simpson's When Billy Broke His Head (USA, 1995) ER
View in Class:
- Robert Arnold The Key of G, (USA, 2006)ER
- Christian von Tippelskirch and Simi Linton, An Invitation to Dance (US, 2014, 86 min)
Week Two
(Jan 19): Representing Disability: Horrors/Pleasures of Difference and Disfigurement
Reading:
- David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder, "Ch1: Representation and Its Discontents" in Narrative Prosthesis (2000, U Michigan Press) LC, TE
- 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) TE
- Petra Kuppers, "Freaks, Stages, and Medical Theaters, " Disability and Contemporary PerformanceTE
- Goggin, "Disability, Media, and the Politics of Vulnerability"
- Stuart Murray, "Witnessing" in Representing Autism: Culture, Narrative, Fascination
- Georgina Kleege, "Blind Nightmares," in Sight Unseen
- Tom Shakespeare, "Art and Lies? Representations of Disability on Film"
View:
Clips shown in class:
- David Lynch, The Elephant Man
- Jennifer Miller, "Woman with a beard", http://youtu.be/Z0K0-SDX-E0
- Matt Fraser, Interview on Youtube
- Tami Gold , Juggling Gender (1992) Documentary about Jennifer Miller--Available in Arts Library
- Mr. Angel, http://youtu.be/GauYbTmalo4
- Hal Ashby, Coming Home (1978) --View prior to class
- John Badham, Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
- Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby (2004
Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here
Week Three (Jan 26): Language, Talking, and Describing
Read:
- Mairian Corker, "Disability Politics, Language Planning and Inclusive Social Policy," in Disability & Society, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2000 TE
- Charles Riley II, "Apendix: Guidelines for Portraying People with Disabilities in the Media," in Disability and the Media Prescriptions for Change TE
- Podcast: PRI audio program, "The language of disability in Ukrainian, Persian and Uzbek" (11 min) https://www.pri.org/stories/2012-09-07/describing-disability-language-differences-challenge-even-best-intentioned
- Keywords: "Communication" "Blindness" "Deafness" in Keywords for Disability Studies. eds, Adams, Reiss & Serlin, (NYU Press, 2015) LC, TE
- Georgina Kleege, "Audio Description Described," in Representations, Vol. 135 No. 1, 2016 TE
- Joel Snyder, "Audio Description: The Visual Made Verbal, " in The International Journal of The Arts In Society, Vol 2, 2007 TE
- Sharon Marcus, Heather Love, and Stephen Best, "Building a Better Description," in Representations, Vol. 135 No. 1, 2016 TE
View:
- The Sessions (streaming via UCSD course reserves)
- Selection from Netflix Series "Marvel's Daredevil" (Shown in Class)
Assignment:
- Audio/Textual Description (Due Tues, Oct 24)
Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here
Week Four (Feb 2): Disability and Sexuality; Devotees and Wanabees
Reading:
- Don Kulick And Jens Rydstrom, "the subject of sex" (and another chapter?) in Loneliness and Its Opposite Sex, Disability, and the Ethics of Engagement
- Amber Jamilla Musser, "Lacerated Breasts: Medicine, Autonomy, Pain" in Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (2014)
- Alison Kafer "Desire and Disgust: My Ambivalent Adventures in Devoteeism," and other selection from Sex and Disability, edited by Robert McRuer and Anna Mollow
Additional Reading:
- Russell Shuttelworth, "Disability and Sexuality: from Medical Model to Sexual Rights," 21st Century Sexualities, Ed, Gilbert Herdt and Cymene Howe (pp 146-148)
- Robert McRuer, "As Good As It Gets: Queer Theory and Critical Disability," GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Volume 9, Number 1-2, 2003, pp. 79-105
- Richard L. Bruno, "Devotees, Pretenders and Wannabes: Two Cases of Factitious Disability Disorder
- "Tre Trefethen, "Pity Dates and the Paralyzed Playa," 21st Century Sexualities, Ed, Gilbert Herdt and Cymene Howe (pp 149-153)
- Raymond J. Aguilera, "Disability and Delight: Staring Back at the Devotee Community"
- Per Solvang, "The Amputee Body Desired: Beauty Destabilized? Disability Re-valued?"
- Keywords: "Sex," "Sexuality" in Keywords for Disability Studies. eds, Adams, Reiss & Serlin, (NYU Press, 2015) LC, TE
View:
- Kirby Dick, Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997, USA)
- Nomy Lamm, & Patty Berne, Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility (2014, USA, also--associated website/videos)
- Carlos Brooks, Quid Pro Quo (2008, USA)
- Melody Gilbert, Whole (USA, 2003)
Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here
Week Five (Feb 9): Technology, Access, and Designing for Inclusion
Read:
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- Hedva, Johanna. "Sick Woman Theory." Mask Magazine, 19 Jan 2016. http://www.maskmagazine.com/not-again/struggle/sick-woman-theory.
- Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, "Misfits: a Feminist Materialist Disability Concept," Hypatia vol. 26, no. 3 (Summer, 2011) TE
- Aimi Hamraie, "Designing Collective Access: A Feminist Disability Theory of Universal Design," in DSQ Vol 33, No 4 (2013)TE
- Alicia Kestrell Verlager "The Prosthetic Eye" in Sherry Turkle, ed, The Inner History of Devices. (MIT Press, 2008) TE
- Graham Pullin, "Fashion Meets Discretion" in Design Meets Disability. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009. TE,
Additional Reading:
- Joseph Cevetello, "The Elite Glucometer," in Sherry Turkle, Evocative Objects: Things We Think With (2007) TE
- The Accessible Icon Project: "An Icon Is a Verb": http://accessibleicon.org/#an-icon-is-a-verb
- The Accessible Syllabus: Accessible classroom resources promote student engagement and agency https://accessiblesyllabus.tulane.edu/
- Keywords: "Access," "Design", "Impairment", "Normal" in Keywords for Disability Studies. eds, Adams, Reiss & Serlin, (NYU Press, 2015) LC
- Henry Ford, "The Terror of the Machine," My Life and Work(1922). http://thoughtaudio.com/?p=1431
- Rob Imrie, Selections from Accessible Housing: Quality, Disability and Design (Routledge, 2005) TE
View:
Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here
Week Six (Feb 16): Interaction and Aversion and the Mediation of Public Space
Read:
- E. Chandler & C. Rice, "Alterity In/Of Happiness: Reflecting on the radical possibilities of unruly bodies," Health, Culture and Society, Volume 5, No. 1 (2013) TE
- Susan Schweik, "Kicked to the Curb: Ugly Law Then and Now," Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Vl 46TE
- Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, "What is Staring" (p13-15); "Looking Away, Staring Back" (79-96) "Faces" (97-118; ) Bodies" (161-182) Beholding (185-196) in Staring: How We Look, (Oxford U Press, 2009) TE
- Harlan Hahn, "The Politics of Physical Difference: Disability and Discrimination." Journal of Social Issues, vol. 44, 1988, TE
Further Reading
- Eli Clare, "Gawking, Gaping, Staring" in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Vol 9, No 1-2, 2003 TE
- Bree Hadley, "Introduction" and Selections from Disability, Public Space, Performance and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014) TE
- Tom Shakespeare, "The Role of Non-Disabled People in the World of Disability" in Diability Rights and Wrongs, TE
- "Fat" in Keywords for Disability Studies. eds, Adams, Reiss & Serlin, (NYU Press, 2015) LC, TE
View:
- Sharon Snyder's , Self Preservation: The Art of Riva Lehrer (30 minutes, 2004, USA) streaming on Course Reserves
- Margitte Kristjansso's The Fat Body (In)visible (2 minutes, 2010, USA) https://vimeo.com/17785299
- Jan Derbyshire's "Value Village" (3 minutes, 2013, Canada) https://vimeo.com/69030043
In class:
Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here
Week Seven (Feb 22): Disability Identity, Intersectionality, and Community
Read
- Adrienne Asch, "Critical Race Theory, Feminism, and Disability: Reflections on Social Justice and Personal Identity"
- Jennifer Pokempner and Dorothy Roberts, "Poverty, Welfare Reform, and the Meaning of Disability"
- Johnnie Tillman"Welfare is a Women's Issue" from the first issue of Ms Magazine : http://www.msmagazine.com/spring2002/tillmon.asp and her historic Welfare Mothers Speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBFFq5UhE-Y
- Robert McRuer, "Crip Eye for the Normate Guy," Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
- Keywords: "Fat, Identity, Race, Queer, Passing" in Keywords for Disability Studies. eds, Adams, Reiss & Serlin, (NYU Press, 2015) LC, TE
Further Reading
- Anna Mollow, "Unvictimizable: Toward a Fat Black Disability Studies"
- Beth Ferri, "Changing the Script: Race and Disability in Lynn Manning's "Weights"
- 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"
- Ellen Samuels, "Examining Millie and Christine McKoy: Where Enslavement and Enfreakment Meet"
- Fjord, "Disasters, Race, and Disability: [Un]Seen Through the Political Lens on Katrina"
- Casandra Jackson, "Visualizing Slavery and the Disabled Subject in the Art of Carrie Mae Weems"
- Moya Bailey, "'the Illest': Disability as Metaphor in Hip Hop Music"
Optional Viewing
- Bob Hercules and Gordon Quinn, Bill T Jones: A Good Man (US, 2011)
- Bill T Jones on Fela https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISHbCbOIULI
- Kimberly Crenshaw on Ted talk on Urgency of Intersectionality https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality
- "Take This Hammer" KQED documentary of James Baldwin's 1963 visit to SF https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/216518
- Crip Hop Nation: http://youtu.be/JpLSx7Dg0yo
- Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano, The Intouchables (US, 2012)
- Jordan Peele, Get Out (US, 2017)
- Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby (US, 2004)
- Jason DaSilva, When I Walk (US, 2013)
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Lee Daniels , Precious (US, 2009)
Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here
Week Eight (March 2): Disability, Intimacy, and Family
Read
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- Park McArthur, "Carried and held: Getting good at being helped" International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Volume 5, Number 2, Fall 2012, pp. 162-169
- Park McArthur & Zavitsanos "Other Forms of Conviviality"
- Alison Kafer, "At the Same Time, Out of Time AshleyX", in Feminist, Queer Crip
- Rayna Rapp and Faye Ginsburg, "Enabling Disability: Rewriting Kinship, Reimagining Citizenship"
View:
- Clips screened in class:
- This American Life, Season 2 Episode 1: "Escape" on Micahel Phelps
- Rodrigo Garcia, Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her
- Petra Kuppers and Sadie Wilcox, Tiresias, (USA, 2007)
- Pratibha Parmar, Double the Trouble, Twice the Fun (England, 1992, 25 minutes)
- Selections from Push Girls
Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here
Week Nine (March 9): Disability and End of Life
Read:
- Gilleard, C., & Higgs, P. (2014). Chapter 5: Disability, Ageing And Identity. In Gilleard, C., & Higgs, P. (Eds). Ageing, corporeality and embodiment (pp. 69-85). Anthem Press.
- Shakespeare, T. (2017). Chapter 7: A Matter of Life and Death. In T. Shakespeare, Disability: The Basics (pp. 121-143). Routledge.
- van Wijngaarden, E., Leget, C., & Goossensen, A. (2014). Experiences and motivations underlying wishes to die in older people who are tired of living: a research area in its infancy. OMEGA-Journal of death and dying, 69(2), 191-216.
- Sara Ahmed, "The Politics of Feeling Good," ACRAWSA e-journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2008
- Keywords for disability studies : entries on Aging and Euthanasia.. Adams, R., Reiss, B., & Serlin, D. (Eds.).
View:
Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here
Week
Ten (March 16): Disability in Transnational Perspective
Read:
- This Spoonie Living blog post on MHA: http://blog.spoonieliving.com/post/148506624836/spoonie-anime-rec-boku-no-hero-academia-hey This blog post offers a mild overview to MHA without being too spoiler-heavy.
- A one-page scan from the MHA manga that discusses the protagonist's treatment as someone who doesn't have a superpower: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-okPbTGUJNLM/VmGcfc1hAxI/AAAAAAAC9Ho/_ONK9kysiww/s0-Ic42/016.png The important text is "Deku: At school, just because he lacked a quirk, he was treated as fragile (?) He wouldn't be made fun of directly to his face, but it was more along the lines of people going "What, he was here? Wait, who was he again?" And to that, Deku's all like "Just you watch!"
- Jasbir Puar, "Ch 3: Disabled Diaspora, Rehabilitating State: The Queer Politics of Reproduction in Palestine/Israel" in The Right to Maim Debility, Capacity, Disability.
- article by an Australian military officer advocating for including units that include autistic individuals. https://www.army.gov.au/our-future/blog/cyber-space/the-future-cyber-workforce-some-alternates-to-the-model
Viewing:
Optional Reading:
- Benjamin Fraser, selections from Cultures of Representation: Disability in World Cinema Contexts
- Arran Stibbe, "Disability, gender and power in Japanese television drama"
- Sharon L. Snyder David T. Mitchell, "Introduction: Ablenationalism and the Geo-Politics of Disability"
- Patrick Devlieger and Jori De Coster, "Disability in African Films: A Semiotic Analysis"
- James Valentine, "Naming and Narrating: Disability in Japan," Disability/Postmodernity
- Susan Schweik, "Disability and the Normal Body of the (Native) Citizen" Social Research, Volume 78, Number 2, Summer 2011
- 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." Radical History Review (Winter, 2006)
- Michael Davidson, "Universal Design: The Work of Disability in the Age of Globalizatio"n
- Eungjung Kim, "Heaven for disabled people: nationalism and international human rights imagery": Disability & Society 26.1 (Jan., 2011).
- Stuart Murray and Clare Barker, "Disabling Postcolonialism: Global Disability Cultures and Democratic Criticism" The Disability Studies Reader (4th ed.), ed. Lennard Davis. Routledge
Optional Viewing:
- Djibril Diop Mambéty, Tales of Little People: the Girl who Sold the Sun (1994-?) --View prior to class
- Staff Benda Bilili - Music Video "Polio" http://youtu.be/KzCUcO_d1qI and "Bouger Le Monde" http://youtu.be/rt-G_6Ba_rk
- Robert Lemelson and Dag Yngvesson, Movement and Madness (2006)
- Kazuo Hara, Goodbye CP (Japan, 1972)--Clips shown in class
- Bong Joon-ho, Mother (South Korea, 2009)
- Janice Tanaka, Who's Going to Pay for These Donuts Anyway? (USA, 1992)
Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here
Finals Week (Marh 23): FINAL Project Documentation/Reflection Due
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Alternate Weekly Topics
Alterntive Weekly Topics:
Advertising
Reading:
- Charles Riley II, "And Here's the Pitch: How Advertising Uses Disability," in Disability and the Media: Prescriptions for Change (University Press of New England, 2005) TE
- Beth Haller, "Advertising Boldly Moves Disability Images Forward, " in Representing Disability in an Ableist world: Essays on Mass Media. TE
- or Beth Haller, "Are Disability Images in Advertising Becoming Bold And Daring? An Analysis of Prominent Themes in US and UK Campaigns" http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/716/893
- Paul Longmore, "'Heaven's Special Child': The Making of Poster Children," in The Disability Studies Reader. TE
- Harlan Hahn, "Advertising the acceptable employable image: Disability and capitalism," in Policy Studies Journal, Vol 15, 3, TE
- Public Radio International, "Becky, Barbie's friend who uses a wheelchair, was discontinued." TE
Universal Design for Learning and Assistive Educational Technology
Read:
- Keywords: "Accomodation" "Education" in Keywords for Disability Studies. eds, Adams, Reiss & Serlin, (NYU Press, 2015) LC, TE
- Selections from Tim Corcoran, Julie White, Ben Whitburn (eds.) Disability Studies: Educating for Inclusion (SensePublishers, 2015)
- Marie oeller & Julie Jung, "Sites of Normalcy: Understanding Online Education as Prosthetic Technology Keywords" DSQ
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Selections, D.H. Rose & A. Meyer, Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning. (ASCD Press, 2002)
View: