Index

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. PREFACE Two Meditations 1
4. CHAPTER 1 Autistic Android? The Curious Instance of Star Trek’s Data 35
5. CHAPTER 2 Life, Animated: Adapting a Book about a Hero with Autism 47
6. CHAPTER 3 Where Is the Autism in Rain Man? 59
7. CHAPTER 4 The Good Doctor: Images of Autism and Augmented Intelligence 71
8. CHAPTER 5 Oddity and Catastrophe in The Big Short 83
9. CHAPTER 6 Diagnosing the Detective: Sherlock Holmes and Autism in Contemporary Television 94
10. CHAPTER 7 She’s So Unusual: The Autist in Stranger Things 107
11. CHAPTER 8 Autism, Performance, and Sociality: Isolated Attention in The Social Network 118
12. CHAPTER 9 Hidden Worlds of Female Autism 130
13. CHAPTER 10 Eye Contact in Juárez: Borderline Empathy and the Autistic Detective 144
14. CHAPTER 11 The Creative Evolution and Reception of Netfl ix’s Atypical 159
15. CHAPTER 12 Community’s Human Laugh Track: Neurodiversity in a Metamodern Sitcom 174
16. CHAPTER 13 Portrait of the Autist as a Young Man 186
17. CHAPTER 14 Due Diligence: Exploring ASD in Nightcrawler and The Accountant 201
18. CHAPTER 15 Mind the Gap: Autistic Viewpoint in Film 215
19. CHAPTER 16 Performative Restraint and the Challenges of Empathy in Being There and Phantom Thread 227
20. CHAPTER 17 “A Spoonful of Sugar”: Watching Movies Autistically 240
21. CHAPTER 18 David and Lisa: The Healing Power of the Group 255
22. CHAPTER 19 Jesse: Torture That Autist 272
23. Works Cited and Consulted 291
24. Photo Captions and Credits 308
25. Contributors 310
26. Index 314