The Problem Body: Projecting Disability on Film - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814252311 ISBN 13: 9780814252314

Publisher: Ohio State University Press, 2015

Synopsis

In The Problem Body, editors Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotić bring together the work of eleven of the best disability scholars from the U.S., the U.K., Canada, and South Korea to explore a new approach to the study of film by concentrating on cinematic representations of what they term "the problem body." The book is a much-needed exploration of the projection of disability on film combined with a much-needed rethinking of hierarchies of difference. The editors turned to the existing corpus of disability theory with its impressive insights about the social and cultural mediation of disabled bodies. They then sought, from scholars at every stage of their careers, new ideas about how disabled bodies coexist with a range of other bodies (gendered, queered, racialized, classed, etc.).

About this title

About the Author

Sally Chivers is associate professor and Chair of Canadian Studies at Trent University. Nicole Markotic is associate professor of English at the University of Windsor.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814252311
• ISBN 13: 9780814252314
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252
• Editor: Chivers Sally, Markotic Nicole