Traditionally, the depiction of disability in cinema has mirrored the dominant worldview's
outside-looking-in perspective. By contrast, today's New Wave of Disability Cinema starts …

Like feminist film and media theory, a disability perspective is not primarily about the study of
representations. Over thirty years ago, Joan Scott had to explain to her colleagues that a …

This dissertation aims to provide new readings of Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone and Lee
Chang-dong's Oasis, showing how the films draw attention to the production of disability as …

Disability and documentary have a complex, intertwined history; the cinematic apparatus
itself developed in tandem with Western contemporary medicine, with medical instruments …

As the field of disability studies expands and overlaps with film studies, its establishment of a
politically progressive “minority cinema”(largely home to films by persons with disabilities, for …

In many contemporary films, disability may be represented as a moral metaphor (The
Straight Story [France/UK/USA, 1999, David Lynch]), as extraordinarily heroic (A Beautiful …

Documentary film has traditionally perpetuated damaging cultural understandings of
disability. However, Astra Taylor's Examined Life (2008) and Bonnie Sherr Klein's …

Abstract Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone (France, 2012) and Guillermo del Toro's The
Shape of Water (US, 2017) tell, in very different ways, a familiar story: a disabled, female …

Disability is a central cultural identity and category in Australia, but this is not often realized.
We seek to make a contribution to conversations and critical analyses of disability in …

This essay seeks to understand the significance for disability studies of Disney/Pixar's Wall-
E (2008), an animated blockbuster about a wheelchairlike robot who helps guide wheelchair …