[Ohio-talk] FW: [Nfbnet-master-list] FW: H-Dis: Turner Classic Movies showing disability films

[J.W. Smith]

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>
>TCM to Examine Hollywood's Depiction of People with Disabilities in The 
>Projected Image: A History of Disability in Film in October
>
>Lawrence Carter-Long Joins TCM's Robert Osborne for Historic Month-Long 
>Film Exploration, Presented in Collaboration with Inclusion in the Arts
>
>Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will dedicate the month of October to 
>exploring the ways people with disabilities have been portrayed in 
>film. On behalf of Inclusion in the Arts, Lawrence Carter-Long will 
>join TCM host Robert Osborne for The Projected Image: A History of 
>Disability in Film. The special month-long exploration will air 
>Tuesdays in October, beginning Oct. 2 at 8 p.m. (ET).
>
>   TCM makes today's announcement to coincide with the 22nd anniversary 
> of the signing of the Americans with Disability Act
> (ADA) on July 26. And in a first for TCM, all films will be presented 
> with both closed captioning and audio description (via secondary 
> audio) for audience members with auditory and visual disabilities.
>
>   The Projected Image: A History of Disability in Film features more 
> than 20 films ranging from the 1920s to the 1980s. Each night's 
> collection will explore particular aspects, themes, or types of 
> disability, such as blindness, deafness and psychiatric or 
> intellectual disabilities. In addition, one evening of programming 
> will focus on newly disabled veterans returning home from war.
>
>   TCM's exploration of disability in cinema includes many 
> Oscar(r)-winning and nominated films, such as An Affair to Remember 
> (1957), in which Deborah Kerr's romantic rendezvous with Cary Grant is 
> nearly derailed by a paralyzing accident; A Patch of Blue (1965), with 
> Elizabeth Hartman as a blind white girl who falls in love with a black 
> man, played by Sidney Poitier; Butterflies Are Free (1972), starring 
> Edward Albert as a blind man attempting to break free from his 
> over-protective mother; and Gaby: A True Story (1987), the powerful 
> tale of a girl with cerebral palsy trying to gain independence as an 
> artist; Johnny Belinda(1948), starring Jane Wyman as a "deaf-mute" 
> forced to defy expectations; The Miracle Worker (1962), starring Anne 
> Bancroft as Annie Sullivan and Patty Duke as Helen Keller; One Flew 
> Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), with Jack Nicholson as a patient in a 
> mental institution and Louise Fletcher as the infamous Nurse Ratched; 
> The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), the post-War drama starring 
> Fredric March, Myrna Loy and real-life disabled veteran Harold 
> Russell; and Charly (1968), with Cliff Robertson as an intellectually 
> disabled man who questions the limits of science after being turned 
> into a genius.
>
>   The Projected Image: A History of Disability in Film also features 
> several lesser-known classics ripe for rediscovery, including the 
> atmospheric Val Lewton chiller Bedlam (1946), the intriguing 
> blind-detective mystery Eyes in the Night (1942); A Child is Waiting 
> (1963), with Burt Lancaster and Judy Garland; the British family drama 
> Mandy (1953); and a bravura performance by wheelchair user Susan 
> Peters in Sign of the Ram (1948). A complete schedule is included.
>
>   Each year since 2006, TCM has dedicated one month toward examining 
> how different cultural and ethnic groups have been portrayed in the 
> movies. Several of the programming events have centered on Race and 
> Hollywood, with explorations on how the movies have portrayed 
> African-Americans in 2005, Asians in 2008, Latinos in 2009, Native 
> Americans in 2010 and Arabs in 2011. TCM looked at Hollywood's 
> depiction of gay and lesbian characters, issues and themes in 2007.
>
>   "The Projected Image: A History of Disability in Film is a valuable 
> opportunity to take a deeper look at the movies we all know and love, 
> to see them from a different perspective and to learn what they have 
> to say about us as a society," said Osborne.
> "We are very proud to be working with Inclusion in the Arts on this 
> important exploration. And we are especially glad to have Lawrence 
> Carter-Long of the National Council on Disability with us to provide 
> fascinating, historical background and thought-provoking insight on 
> how cinematic portrayals of disability have evolved over time."
>
>   "From returning veterans learning to renegotiate both the 
> assumptions and environments once taken for granted to the rise of 
> independent living, Hollywood depictions of disability have 
> alternately echoed and influenced life outside the movie theater,"
> said Carter-Long, who curated the series. "Twenty-two years after the 
> passage of the ADA and over a century since Thomas Edison filmed 'The 
> Fake Beggar,' TCM and Inclusion in the Arts provide an unprecedented 
> overview of how cinematic projections of isolation and inspiration 
> have played out on the silver screen - and in our lives. When screened 
> together, everything from The Miracle Worker to One Flew Over the 
> Cuckoo's Nest reveals another layer where what you think you know is 
> only the beginning."
>


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