Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Introduction
Disability Studies, World Cinema and the Cognitive Code of Reality
Benjamin Fraser
Global In(ter)dependent Disability Cinema
Targeting Ephemeral Domains of Belief and Cultivating Aficionados of the Body
David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder
‘Beyond Forgiveness’?
Lee Chang-dong’s Oasis (2002) and the Mobilisation of Disability Discourses in the Korean New Wave
Paul Petrovic
Refusing Chromosomal Pairing
Inclusion, Disabled Masculinity, Sexuality and Intimacy in Yo, también (2009)
Michael Gill
Dunce! Duffer! Dimwit!
Dyslexia in Bollywood’s Taare Zameen Par (2007)
Sanjukta Ghosh
Landscapes of Children
Picturing Disability in Buñuel’s Los olvidados (1950)
Susan Antebi
Fearful Reflections
Representations of Disability in Postwar Dutch Cinema (1973–2011)
Mitzi Waltz
‘People Endure’
The Function of Autism in Anton’s Right Here (2012)
José Alaniz
Displaying Autism
The Thinking and Images of Temple Grandin (2010)
Katherine Lashley
More than the ‘Other’?
On Four Tendencies Regarding the Representation of Disability in Contemporary German Film (2005–2010)
Petra Anders
The Other Body
Psychiatric Disability and Pedro Almodóvar (1988–2011)
Candace Skibba
On the Road to Normalcy
European Road Movies and Disability (2002–2011)
Anna Grebe
Re-envisioning Italy’s ‘New Man’ in Bella non piangere! (1955)
Jennifer Griffiths
‘Get Your Legs Back’
Avatar (2009) and the Re-booting of American Individualism
Susan Flynn
Through the Disability Lens
Revisiting Ousmane Sembène’s Xala (1975) and Camp de Thiaroye (1988)
Ken Junior Lipenga
Homes Wretched and Wrecked
Disability as Social Dis-ease in Kurosawa’s Dodes’ka-den (1970)
James A. Wren
Leprosy and the Dialectical Body in Forugh Farrokhzad’s The House is Black (1964)
Rosa Holman
 
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