Documentary and Disability [Hardcover]

This edited collection of contributions from media scholars, film practitioners and film historians connects the vibrant fields of documentary and disability studies. Documentary film has not only played an historical role in the social construction of disability but continues to be a strong force for expression, inclusion and activism. Offering essays on the interpretation and conception of a wide variety of documentary formats, Documentary and Disability reveals a rich set of resources on subjects as diverse as Thomas Quasthoffs opera performances, Tourette syndrome in the developing world, queer approaches to sexual functionality, Channel 4 disability sports broadcasting, the political meaning of cochlear implant activation, and Christophs Schlingensiefs celebrated Freakstars 3000.?

1. Introduction: The Bricolage of Documentary and Disability (Catalin Brylla, Helen Hughes).- 2.?Part One: Film Practice -?Chapter 2: Not Without Us  Collaborating Across Difference in Documentary Filmmaking (Samuel Avery).- 3.?Visual Psychological Anthropology and the Lived Experience of Disability (Annie Tucker, Robert Lemelson).- 4.?Valorising Disability on Screen: When did Inspirational Become a Dirty Word? (Veronica Wain).- 5.?Spectatorship and Alternative Portrayals of Blindness (Catalin Brylla.- 6.?Aberrancy and Autobiographical Documentary (Phoebe Hart).- 7.?Part Two: Representation -?Chapter 7: Thomas Quasthoff and the Performativity of Disability in Michael Harders The Dreamer (Anna Drum, Martin Brady).- 8.?Rethinking Ability and Disability in the Work of Johan van der Keuken (Hing Tsang).- 9.?(Dis)abling the Spectator: Embodying Disability Experience in Animated Documentary (Slava Greenberg).- 10.?The Poetics of Touch: Mediating the Reality of Deafblindness in Planet of Snail (Anne-Marie Callus).-?11. Sexual Dissidence and Crip Empowerment in Yes, We Fuck! (Andrea Garc?a-Santesmases).- 12.?Part Three: Identity,lS(