Learn More About Disability & Society Through Film
2003 "information package" on Disability Studies Contains a list of films and documentaries. National Resource Center on Supported Living and Choice, Syracuse University.
Recent Award Winning Films from Around the World is a list of 25 disability themed films with a brief description of each. Disability World 2003.
Mobility International USA has
produced three videos on topics of disability and international issues:
(1) All Abroad!, (2) Loud, Proud and Passionate®, and (3) Loud, Proud
and Prosperous® A Video Documentary.
Commentaries & Reviews
From Freaks to Savants: disability and hegemony from The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) to Sling Blade. Fiona Whittington-Walsh. Disability & Society. Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 695-707. October 1, 2002.
Decontextualizing disability in the crime mystery genre: the case of the invisible handicap. Frederic W. Hafferty and Susan Foster. Disability & Society. Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 185-206. January 1994.
Disabling Imagery and the Media an Exploration of the Principles for Media Representations of Disabled People.
(The first in a series of reports.) Colin Barnes. The British Council
of Organizations of Disabled People. Ryburn Publishing. Halifax,
England. (.pdf format). Read in.html".
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