Disabling Imagery? - A teaching guide to disability and moving image media
This website provides a wealth of information on how disability has been represented in moving image from the earliest days. The approach is from a disability equality and human rights perspective, which draws on the collective thinking of the Disabled People's Movement. Therefore, whether you are experienced in Media Studies/English teaching and/or have some understanding of disability issues, it's important to read the Introduction and Ways of thinking about disability before moving on to look at the film and teaching sections.
Ordering Information
A DVD of short films and film clips representing disability issues.
- Order no. BR072
- Price: £15 (inc VAT)
Buy online from the BFI Filmstore or phone Palgrave Macmillan Orders on 01256 302866.
Print copies of the guide are available from Disability Equality in Education. See www.diseed.org.uk for details.
1. Introduction
2. Ways of thinking about disability
- History of attitudes to disabled people
- 'Medical model' v. 'social model'
- Stereotypes
- Disability and diversity
- Equal Opportunities
3. Teaching with moving image media
4. Treatment of disabled people in moving image media
- Disability in moving image media: a history
- Commercial films
- TV representations
- Bollywood and disability
- bfi DVD short films and film clips
5. Activities and lesson plans
6. Further resources
