Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: An Invitation to Disability 1
Part I Disability on the Screen
Deaf Sexy: Genre and Disability in Read My Lips Timothy E. Wilson 17
Punk Will Tear Us Apart: Performance, Liminality and Filmic Depictions of Disabled Punk Musicians David Church 38
Acquired Community: Leigh Bowery and Hail the New Puritans Mise-en-Scène of AIDS Heather Warren-Crow 39
Razzle-Dazzle Heartbreak: Disability Promotion and Glorious Abjection in Guy Maddins The Saddest Music in the World Nicole Markotic 55
Seeing the Apricot: A Disability Perspective on Alzheimer's in Lee Chang-dong's Poetry Sally Olivers 65
Breaking the Silence? Deafness, Education and Identity in Two Post-Cultural Revolution Chinese Films Sarah Dauncey 75
Modernity's Rescue Mission: Postcolonial Transactions of Disability and Sexuality Eunjung Kim Michelle Jarman 89
Chocolate's Ass-Kicking Autistic Savant: Disability, Globalization and the Action Cinema Russell Meeuf 101
Physical Disability and Indian Cinema Joyojeet Pal 109
Extra-Textual Reveals: Disability, (Sort of) Queer Sexuality and a Military Coup in Battlestar Galactica Alyson Patsavas 131
Healer? Assassin? Ben Hawkins, "Cure," "Disability" and Missions in HBO's Carnivàle Johnson Cheu 145
"Are they laughing at us or with us?" Disability in Fox's Animated Series Family Guy Simon McKeown Paul A. Darke 155
Choreographing Disability: Stigma, Handicapability and Dancing with the Stars Heath A. Diehl 165
Part II Disability in Production and Reception
Don't Film Us, We'll Film You: Agency and Self-Representation in the Joined for Life Television Documentaries Ellen Samuels 175
The Making of 18q-: Parental Advocacy, Disability and the Ethics of Documentary Filmmaking Veronica Wain 191
Overcoming the Need to "Overcome": Challenging Disability Narratives in The Miracle Term Thrower 205
Born on the Fourth of July: Production and Assessment of a Turbulent Text Martin F. Norden 219
Deafness as Peripeteia: "Beethoven" and Immortal Beloved Dawne C. McCance 231
"This isn't something I can fake": The Discourse of Disability Surrounding Glee! Katie Ellis 244
Appendices
I Filmography 255
II Selected Readings in Disability Studies 259
About the Contributors 263
Index 267
