Global In(ter)dependent Disability Cinema: Targeting Ephemeral Domains of Belief and Cultivating Aficionados of the Body

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Notes on Contributors ix
5. Introduction. Disability Studies, World Cinema and the Cognitive Code of Reality 1
6. Global In(ter)dependent Disability Cinema: Targeting Ephemeral Domains of Belief and Cultivating Aficionados of the Body 18
7. ‘Beyond Forgiveness’? Lee Chang-dong’s Oasis (2002) and the Mobilisation of Disability Discourses in the Korean New Wave 33
8. Refusing Chromosomal Pairing. Inclusion, Disabled Masculinity, Sexuality and Intimacy in Yo, también (2009) 47
9. Dunce! Duffer! Dimwit! Dyslexia in Bollywood’s Taare Zameen Par (2007) 63
10. Landscapes of Children. Picturing Disability in Buñuel’s Los olvidados (1950) 78
11. Fearful Reflections. Representations of Disability in Post-war Dutch Cinema (1973–2011) 93
12. ‘People Endure’. The Function of Autism in Anton’s Right Here (2012) 110
13. Displaying Autism. The Thinking and Images of Temple Grandin (2010) 126
14. More than the ‘Other’? On Four Tendencies Regarding the Representation of Disability in Contemporary German Film (2005–2010) 141
15. The Other Body. Psychiatric Disability and Pedro Almodóvar (1988–2011) 157
16. On the Road to Normalcy. European Road Movies and Disability (2002–2011) 173
17. Re-envisioning Italy’s ‘New Man’ in Bella non piangere! (1955) 187
18. ‘Get Your Legs Back’. Avatar (2009) and the Re-booting of American Individualism 200
19. Through the Disability Lens. Revisiting Ousmane Sembène’s Xala (1975) and Camp de Thiaroye (1988) 216
20. Homes Wretched and Wrecked. Disability as Social Dis-ease in Kurosawa’s Dodes’ka-den (1970) 230
21. Leprosy and the Dialectical Body in Forugh Farrokhzad’s The House is Black (1964) 247
22. Index 263