Phenomenal Encounters: Film, Disability, and the Ambivalence of Embodiment Open Access
Palmer, Sara Elise (2012)
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Abstract
This thesis examines representation of disability in film in its relation to the embodied encounter between spectator and screen. While disability is often a marker of social difference, its representation in film can also serve as an exploration of the instable relations between mind and body. This instability is evocative in cinema because it reminds the spectator of their own ambivalence about being embodied. Case study analysis of three films, Midnight Cowboy, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and Avatar, identifies ways in which a film may take up disability existentially as a means to feel though crises of embodiment or may position disability as something that needs to be transcended so as to resolve ambivalence.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Introduction 1
Chapter 2
To Cohere as Queer: Mental and Physical Disability in Midnight Cowboy 13
Chapter 3
The Imperfect Rhyme of Body and Mind: Poetic Cinema in The Diving Bell 35
and the Butterfly
Chapter 4
Waking Up: Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Consciousness in Avatar. 57
Bibliography 73
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