[nabs-l] pop culture portrayals of disabilities

[Sandra Gayer]

Hello Sophie,
The film A Song from The Heart features a blind character played by a
sighted actress. The character receives a sight restoration near the
end of the film so it is logical to have an able bodied actress in
this case.

The film See No Evil, Hear No Evil stars able bodied actors playing a
deaf man and a blind man who witness a murder and they help each other
to keep safe. Very funny!

The 1998 version of the film Rear Window stars Christopher Reeve who
is disabled in real life and he was playing a paralised character.

I hope some of these ideas help.

Very best wishes,

Sandra Gayer DipABRSM.

On 9/18/17, Joshua Hendrickson via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> There's also another book called Blind Sighted, note the word sighted
> is S-I-G-H-T-E-D.  I forget the author, but I read it for a book club.
> That book was about a high school boy who read to a lady who was
> blind.
>
> On 9/18/17, Vejas Vasiliauskas via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> A while back, a friend of mine showed me a bunch of what were supposed to
>> be
>> commedies and the first was related to blindness. Being sighted he found
>> it
>> funny, but I actually found it pretty upsetting. I can't recall the name
>> but
>> I'll ask him. But I remember that the idea was that there was a blind man
>> who I believe was getting used to navigating his hotel room. When he had
>> to
>> wake up at night he got turned  around and walked to the wrong door. All
>> of
>> which would be totally understandable except that they mocked him by
>> making
>> it seem like it was really funny that he would go to the wrong door, and
>> exaggerated the point so much that it was as if he was in a parallel
>> world
>> of some sort.
>> Good luck,
>> Vejas
>>
>>> On Sep 18, 2017, at 07:09, Sophie Trist via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear NABS friends,
>>>
>>> Hope everyone's Monday is gejting off to a good start. Next month, I
>>> will
>>> be partnering with another student at my university to give a
>>> presentation
>>> on how pop culture portrayals of disabilities create stereotypes and
>>> form
>>> people's perceptions about us. I will be talking about portrayals of
>>> people with physical disabilities, while the other student will be
>>> talking
>>> about portrayals of mental disabilities. I have a few ideas (Daredevil,
>>> Need to Breathe), but if anyone knows of a relatively modern
>>> book/movie/TV
>>> show that portrays people with disabilities, your input would be super
>>> helpful. It can be blindness, deafness, people in wheelchairs, whatever.
>>>
>>> Yours sincerely,
>>> Sophie Trist
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