THE PROBLEM BODY: Projecting Disability on Film
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: SALLY CHIVERS AND NICOLE MARKOTIĆ
“The Whole Art of a Wooden Leg”: King Vidor’s Picturization of Laurence Stallings’s “Great Story”: TIMOTHY BARNARD
Phantom Limbs: Film Noir and the Disabled Body: MICHAEL DAVIDSON
Seeing Blindness On-Screen: The Blind, Female Gaze: JOHNSON CHEU
The Wild Child: DAWNE McCANCE
No Life Anyway: Pathologizing Disability on Film: PAUL DARKE
“And Death—capital D—shall be no more—semicolon!”: Explicating the Terminally Ill Body in Margaret Edson’s W;t: HEATH DIEHL
“A Man, with the Same Feelings”: Disability, Humanity, and Heterosexual Apparatus in Breaking the Waves, Born on the Fourth of July, Breathing Lessons, and Oasis: EUNJUNG KIM
Neoliberal Risks: Million Dollar Baby, Murderball, and Anti-National Sexual Positions: ROBERT McRUER
Body Genres: An Anatomy of Disability in Film: SHARON L. SNYDER AND DAVID T. MITCHELL
Coda: “Blinded by the Light,” OR: Where’s the Rest of Me?: ANNE FINGER
Filmography
Notes on Contributors
Index