Film, Comedy, and Disability: Understanding Humour and Genre in Cinematic Constructions of Impairment and Disability

ISBN-13: 9780367587680 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 196 str.

Alison Wilde

Opis

This groundbreaking book analyses representations of disability in comedy films, arguing that meanings of disability and impairment drawn from cinema need to be grounded in an understanding of cinematic practices and processes.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Comedy and Disability; Chapter 3: Contemporary Comedy: Subjectivity, Genre, and Impairment; Chapter 4: Romantic Comedy and Disability; Chapter 5: Romantic Comedy Meets Satire: Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster; Chapter 6: The Gross-Out Genre, the Farrelly Brothers, and Disability: Mapping Representational Change; Chapter 7: Conclusion, or When is an Ending not an Ending?; Bibliography; Index

O autorze

Alison Wilde is Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University. Alison has written mainly on topics of screen media, disability, gender, and audiences, in addition to researching and publishing on disability and educational inclusion, parenting, gender, social care, and health care. She co-founded the MeCCSA Disability Studies Network, and the BSA's Disability Studies group.