Disability and Film
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C. Barnes (1992) Disabling Imagery and the Media, BCODP Derby and Ryburn Publishing, Halifax
M. Blake (1995) The Man Behind a Thousand Faces, The Vestal Press, London
BFI (2002) Reading Films: Key Concepts for Analysing Film and Television, Ed. Wendy Earle, bfi,London.
BFI (2002) Representation, Realism and Fantasy: Key Concepts for Analysing Film, Ed. Wendy Earle, bfi,London.
M. Burleigh (1994) Death and Deliverance: Euthanasia in Germany 1900-1945 Cambridge University Press. (Ch. 6 Selling Murder: the killing films of the Third Reich)
M. Corker and T. Shakespeare (2002), Postmodernity: Embodying Disability Theory Continuum, London. Disability
G. Cumberbatch and R. Negrine (1992) Images of Disability on Television, Routledge, London. | Further resources to support inclusion and understanding disability: a bibliography
P. Darke (1998) Understanding Cinematic Representation of Disability in The Disability Reader: Social Science Perspectives. Edited by Tom Shakespeare, Cassell, London
P. Darke (2003) White Sticks, Wheels and Crutches: Disability and the Moving Image BFI, London
A. Enns and C.R. Smit (Eds.) (2001) Screening Disability: Essays on Cinema and Disability, University Press of America, Lanham
A. Gartner, and T. Joe (Eds.) (1987) Images of the Disabled, Disabling Images, Praeger, New York
M.F. Norden (1994) The Cinema of Isolation: A History of Physical Disability in the Movies, Rutgers University Press, New Jersey
A. Pointon (1997) Framed: Interrogating Disability in the Media, BFI, London
J.S. Schuchman (1988) Hollywood Speaks: Deafness and the Film Entertainment Industry, University of Illinois Press, Chicago
O. Stuart (1993) Double Oppression in Disabling Barriers: Enabling Society, Ed. Swain et al, Sage, London | Racism and disabilism
Useful Websites
- The All Movie Guide
- Films involving disability (2500 by type of impairment)
- Disability and Film Theory (US)
- Disability stereotypes (PDF)
- Education for disability and gender equality (for American high school students)
- Disability social history project
- Disability Equality and the Media Training and Training for Disability Equality in schools and colleges
- Disability History Museum (US)
- Beyond Affliction: The Disability History Project (US)
- Disability Arts in London: Disability Film Festival
- Employers' Forum on Disability in Film
- Representation of Psychiatric Disability in 50 years of Hollywood Film
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