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02927aam a2200433 i 4500 001 7CC92E4CFF1611E695AA88B7DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170302010256 008 160516s2016 ncu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016011942 020 $a 0786496495 (softcover : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780786496495 (softcover : alk. paper) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCLCF $d WCZ $d STF $d WRF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN1995.9.H34 $b M37 2016 082 00 $a 791.43/6527 $2 23 100 1 $a MarkoticÌ, Nicole, $e author. 245 10 $a Disability in film and literature / $c Nicole MarkoticÌ. 264 1 $a Jefferson, North Carolina : $b McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, $c [2016] 300 $a x, 210 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Disabled characters are often represented as aberrant or evil and are isolated or incarcerated. This book examines language in film and fiction that perpetuates the representation of the disabled as abnormal or problematic. The author looks at depictions of disability--both disparaging and amusing--and discusses disability theory as a framework for reconsidering "normal" and "abnormal" bodies"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Introduction : the [adj.] body -- Razzle dazzle heartbreak : disability promotion and glorious abjection in Guy Maddin's The saddest music in the world -- Transposing disability : passing, intellectual disabilities, and accommodating others -- Icarus, gods and the "lesson" of disability -- Freaks, misfits and other citizens -- 20th-century fables : fiction, disease, and-oh yeah-disability -- The body in pieces : Lacan and the crisis of the united fragmentary -- The narrator witness : dis/connections between disability and death -- WHere the line breaks : disability in the poetry of Roy Miki and Sharon Thesen -- PLay the facts and the truth : disability in documentary film -- Sitting pretty : the politics of (not) standing on ceremony -- Afterword : not assisted suicide, yet! 650 0 $a People with disabilities in motion pictures. 650 0 $a People with disabilities in literature. 650 0 $a Human body in motion pictures. 650 0 $a Human body in literature. 650 0 $a Sociology of disability. 650 7 $a Human body in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01899762 650 7 $a Human body in motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01899764 650 7 $a People with disabilities in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01057365 650 7 $a People with disabilities in motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01057367 650 7 $a Sociology of disability. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01123936 941 $a 3 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718092615.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211030254.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20170302014524.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7CC92E4CFF1611E695AA88B7DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search