[nabs-l] pop culture portrayals of disabilities

[Sarah Jevnikar]

Hi,
A Patch of Blue has a blind character - it's a film and a book, both of
which are not great representations. FYI both contain violence.
Switched at Birth has a deaf character.
The West Wing has a deaf character who was played by a deaf acress.
Master of None contains deaf characters and actors:
http://www.3playmedia.com/2017/06/08/master-none-highlights-deaf-culture/
Another article on deaf/hard of hearing characters in film/tv:
http://www.parkeraud.com/1306-2/
Ray (film on Ray Charles)
Blind Justice
Covert Affairs (blind character but not great representation either)
Blindness (the film and book)
Paternalistic/not great representations of characters using wheelchairs:
The Secret Garden
Heidi 
A Christmas Carol
There are so many memoirs - hard to tell whether they represent well or not,
as they are people's own experiences
HTH,
Sarah

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Sent: September 18, 2017 3:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [nabs-l] pop culture portrayals of disabilities

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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