Note: This set of weekly topics, readings, and viewing material is provisional and may change. You are responsible for checking the online syllabus weekly for updated reading and viewing assignments (be sure to refresh your browser to see the most recent version). Readings are due before the class each week and participants are required to post responses to discussion prompts or assignments on TritonEd by Monday at noon.

ER = Text and Film on EReservses • LC = Electronic Texts or Film in Library Catalog • TE = Text or Film on TritonEd

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Week Zero (Sept 27):  Introduction

• 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 in Class:

• Selections from Adams, Reiss and Serlin, eds. Keywords for Disability Studies. New York: NYU Press, 2015 LC, TE

View in Class:

• Selections from Kazuo Hara, Goodbye CP (Japan, 1972) [Sayonara CP]
• Robert Arnold The Key of G, (USA, 2006)ER

Week One (Oct 3 &5):  Models and Meanings of [Dis]Ability

Read:

• Tues
  • Simi Linton, "Reassigning Meaning," ( "Reclamation" is optional )in Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity (NYU Press, 1998) LC, TE
• Thurs
  • 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

View before class:

• First 40 minutes of Billy Golfus and David Simpson's When Billy Broke His Head (USA, 1995) ER

View in class:

• Christian von Tippelskirch and Simi Linton, An Invitation to Dance (US, 2014, 86 min))
  

Week Two (Oct 10 & 12): Representing Disability: Horrors/Pleasures of Difference and Disfigurement

Reading:

• Tues:
  • 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
• Thurs
  • Petra Kuppers, "Freaks, Stages, and Medical Theaters, " Disability and Contemporary PerformanceTE

View:

• Todd Browning (USA, ), Freaks--View prior to class ER (Also on youtube http://youtu.be/LkTb87FbyNA)
• Optional Viewing:
  • Interview with Matt Fraser ("Seal Boy") https://youtu.be/G2zR0vgESBo
  • Interview with Jyoti Amge https://youtu.be/Jk6kfXIZ58k
  • Interfview with Rose Siggins https://youtu.be/asvYF-KLs-k

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

Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here

 

Week Three (Oct 17 &19): Language, Talking, and Describing

Read:

• Tues:
  • 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
• Thurs:
  • 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 (Oct 24 &26): Advertising

Reading:

• Tues
  • 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
• Thurs
  • 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

View:

• click on "expanded" below

Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here

Week Five (Oct 31 & Nov 2): Technology, Access, and Designing for Inclusion

Read:

• Tues
  • Graham Pullin, "Fashion Meets Discretion" in Design Meets Disability. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009. TE,
  • Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, "Misfits: a Feminist Materialist Disability Concept," Hypatia vol. 26, no. 3 (Summer, 2011) TE
  • Optional: Aimi Hamraie, "Designing Collective Access: A Feminist Disability Theory of Universal Design," in DSQ Vol 33, No 4 (2013)TE
  • Optional: Keywords: "Access," "Design", "Impairment", "Normal" in Keywords for Disability Studies. eds, Adams, Reiss & Serlin, (NYU Press, 2015) LC, TE
• Thurs
• Henry Ford, "The Terror of the Machine," My Life and Work(1922). http://thoughtaudio.com/?p=1431
• Alicia Kestrell Verlager "The Prosthetic Eye" in Sherry Turkle, ed, The Inner History of Devices. (MIT Press, 2008) TE
• Joseph Cevetello, "The Elite Glucometer," in Sherry Turkle, Evocative Objects: Things We Think With (2007) TE
• Optional: Rob Imrie, Selections from Accessible Housing: Quality, Disability and Design (Routledge, 2005) TE

View:

• In class:
  • Regan Brashear, Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement (2013, Available through UCSD Library Streaming)
  • Jamie Stobie, Freedom Machines (2004, Available through UCSD Library Streaming)
  • Crip Couture (chun-shan sandie yi) http://www.cripcouture.org/

 

Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here

 

Week Six (Nov 7 & 9): Interaction and Aversion and the Mediation of Public Space

Read:

• Tues
  • Eli Clare, "Gawking, Gaping, Staring" in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Vol 9, No 1-2, 2003 TE
  • Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Selections from Staring: How We Look, (Oxford U Press, 2009) TE
  • OPTIONAL:
    • Harlan Hahn, "The Politics of Physical Difference: Disability and Discrimination." Journal of Social Issues, vol. 44, 1988, TE
    • Bree Hadley, "Introduction" and Selections from Disability, Public Space, Performance and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014) TE
• Thurs
  • OPTIONAL
    • Susan Schweik, "Kicked to the Curb: Ugly Law Then and Now," Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Vl 46TE
    • Susan Schweik, "Introduction" to The Ugly Laws (1‐22); "Producing the Unsightly," (23‐39 )LC, TE
    • Tom Shakespeare, "The Role of Non-Disabled People in the World of Disability" in Diability Rights and Wrongs, TE

View:

• Rodrigo Garcia, Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)n

Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here

Week Seven (Nov 14 & 16): Disability Identity, Intersectionality, and Community

Read

• Tues
  • Keywords: "Identity,"l" in Keywords for Disability Studies. eds, Adams, Reiss & Serlin, (NYU Press, 2015) LC, TE
• Thurs
  • 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"

View

Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here

Week Eight (Nov 21): Disability and Sexuality

Read

• Tues
  • Russell Shuttelworth, "Disability and Sexuality: from Medical Model to Sexual Rights," 21st Century Sexualities, Ed, Gilbert Herdt and Cymene Howe (pp 146-148)
  • Tre Trefethen, "Pity Dates and the Paralyzed Playa," 21st Century Sexualities, Ed, Gilbert Herdt and Cymene Howe (pp 149-153)
  • 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"
  • Per Solvang, "The Amputee Body Desired: Beauty Destabilized? Disability Re-valued?"
  • Keywords: "Sex," "Sexuality", "Fat" in Keywords for Disability Studies. eds, Adams, Reiss & Serlin, (NYU Press, 2015) LC, TE

View:

• Nomy Lamm, & Patty Berne, Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility (also--associated website/videos)

Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here

Week Nine (Nov 28 & 30): Learning and Assistive Technology; Performing Disability

Read:

• Tues
  • 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
• Thurs
  • Selections, D.H. Rose & A. Meyer, Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning. (ASCD Press, 2002)

View:

• Sharon Daniel's, Public Secrets

Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here

 

Week Ten (Dec 5 & 7): Disability in Transnational Perspective

Read:

• Tues
  • Benjamin Fraser, selections from Cultures of Representation: Disability in World Cinema Contexts
• Thurs

View:

• TBA

Expanded Reading and Viewing: click here

Finals Week (Dec 7): FINAL Project Documentation/Reflection Due

 

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Films and Videos: