The Disfigured Face in American Literature, Film, and Television

ISBN-13: 9780367743147 / Miękka / 2023 / 216 str.

Opis

This book investigates the exploitation of stereotypical tropes surrounding facial disfigurement by literary authors and filmmakers, considering also the ways in which film, television and the publishing industry have more recently tried to overcome these negative codifications of facial disfigurement.

Spis treści

Poem / A Creative Foreword: Encounter;  The Disfigured Face in American Literature, Film, and Television: Introduction;  Facial Disfigurement: A Plastic Surgeon’s Perspective;  Part I: Facial Disfigurement in American Literature;  1. Ugliness as Deformity in The Life and Loves of a She-Devil and Flavor of the Month;  2. Drawing a Broader Picture of Facial Disfigurement: Moving Beyond "Narrative Prosthesis" in James Hankins’ Drawn;  3. Writing Against the Stigma: Facial Disfigurement in R. J. Palacio’s Wonder;  4. Song of My Self or "I Become the Wounded Person": Kenneth Sherman’s Poetic Tribute to the Elephant Man;  Part II: Facial Disfigurement in American Film and Television;  5. Loving the Monster: The Elephant Man as Modern Fable;  6. Facial Disfigurement on Screen: James Bond and the Politics of Portraying the Post-9/11 Terrorist;  7. Masculinity and Facial Disfigurement in Contemporary US Television Characters;  8. Fictional 'Dissections' of a Medical Curiosity: Facial Disfigurement in Grey’s Anatomy

O autorze

Cornelia Klecker is Assistant Professor and Deputy Chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Gudrun M. Grabher was, until recently, Full Professor and Chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. She is the author of Levinas and the Other in Narratives of Facial Disfigurement.