The problem body : projecting disability on film /
Chivers, Sally,1972-
Markotić, Nicole.
Columbus : Ohio State University Press,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
"The whole art of a wooden leg" : King Vidor's picturization of Laurence Stallings's "Great story" / Timothy Barnard -- Phantom limbs : noir and the disabled body / Michael Davidson -- Seeing blindness on-screen : the blind, female gaze / Johnson Cheu -- The wild child / Dawne McCance -- No life anyway : pathologizing disability on film / Paul Darke -- "And death--capital D--shall be no more--semicolon!" : explicating the terminally ill body in Margaret Edson's W;t / Heath Diehl -- "A man, with the same feelings" : disability, humanity, and heterosexual apparatus in Breaking the waves, Born on the fourth of July, Breathing lessons, and Oasis / Eunjung Kim -- Neoliberal risks : Million dollar baby, Murderball, and anti-national sexual positions / Robert McRuer -- Body genres : an anatomy of disability in film / Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell -- "Blinded by the light," or : Where's the rest of me? / Anne Finger.
People with disabilities in motion pictures.
Human body in motion pictures.
Sociology of disability.