TENTATIVE LIST of RESOURCES [Connor Chapter] Suggestions For

TENTATIVE LIST OF RESOURCES [Connor Chapter] Suggestions for Further Reading Books on Film/Media and Disability Susan Antebi & Beth Jorgensen’s edited book Libre Acceso: Latin American Literature and Film through Disability Studies published in 2017 by SUNY Press. This book brings together Latin American film and literary works with cultural studies and disability studies. Contributing authors discuss topics such as impairment, illness, trauma, and human rights in the context of representations and constructions of disability throughout Central and South America. Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotic’s edited book The Problem Body: Projecting Disability on Film published in 2010 by Ohio State University Press. The authors invited disability scholars from US, UK, Canada, and South Korea to examine cinematic representations of ‘problematic’ bodies, including the intersectionality of disability with gender, sexual orientation, race, and social class. Various explorations of classical Hollywood film, French cinema, film noir, and illness narratives reveal the ways in which disabled bodies are constructed in the public imagination. Kate Ellis and Gerrard Goggin’s Disability & The Media published in 2015 by Palgrave. Part of the series Key Concerns in media studies, this text explores ways in which the media interacts with disability, and vice versa. In particular, issues of access, participation, and representation of people with disabilities in society—as reflected in film, radio, television, and new digital technologies. Beth Haller’s Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essaya on Mass Media published in 2010 by Advocado Press. The author, a journalism professor, calls upon two decades of research in disability and mass media in this unique collection analyzing film, television, news, advertising, and social media. The book’s broad range substantiates many critiques leveled at the media for its limited portrayals of disability, offering sharp insights and ways in which the disabled community have actively “spoke back” to widespread inaccuracies, offering insights into how to address misrepresentation. Marja Evelyn Mogk’s Different Bodies: Essays on Disability in Film and Television published in 2013 by McFarland Press. This volume of essays by authors from the USA, UK, Australia, Canada, and India focuses on representations of disability on television around the world. It features examples of how disability is produced and ‘consumed,’ with analyses of biopics, autobiographical films and documentaries. Nicole Markotic’s Disability in Film and Literature published in 2016 by McFarland & Company. The author challenges depictions of disabled people that reinforce ableist conceptualizations of disability as abnormal and problematic. In her analysis of a wide variety of film and literature, Markotic explores portrayals of the disabled she believes range from disparaging to humorous, arguing for a reconceptualization of the normal/abnormal binary that unnecessarily reifies human differences. Martin Norden’s The Cinema of Isolation: A History of Physical Disabilities in the Movies published in 1994. This volume chronicles how cinema has portrayed physical disabilities—largely in terms of fear and pity on one hand, or awe and inspiration on the other. Norden’s analysis of hundreds of films reveals ways in which the movie industry had played a major role in maintaining stereotypes, confining people with disabilities to restricted options in all areas of their lives. In addition, he calls attention to the increase of progressive portrayals of disability in both mainstream and independent movies. Charles Riley II’s Disability and The Media: Prescriptions for Change published in 2005 by UPNE. In this volume the author focuses on how the medicalized conceptualization of disability has remained steadfast throughout the history of cinema, representing tragic and unhappy people who need fixed or cured. Riley takes to task all branches of the media for using “disability” for their own ends—of telling particular stories—that financially benefit the tellers while providing inaccurate representations. In addition, he offers ways in which disability can be reframed in more complex, realistic ways that accurately portray human differences. Christopher Smit and Anthony Enns’ edited book Screening Disability: Essays on Cinema and Disability published in 2001 by UPA. The authors argue that artistic expressions of disability, including film, often portray people with disabilities as objects of fascination, making them into a form of “the other.” Such portrayals provide distorted renderings of disable people’s reality. In charting the study of disability within cinema, the authors introduce different ways to interpret human representation. Books on Disability History Susan Burch and Mike Rembis’ edited Disability Histories published in 2014 by University of Illinois Press. The field of disability history is fairly new yet rapidly expanding, as evidenced in this volume that brings together international scholars to redraw boundaries that determine who and what is considered of historical value in studying disability. Nineteen essays within the volume integrate a critical analysis of gender, race, and historical content to challenge traditional interpretations of disability. Doris Fleisher & Freida Zames’ The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation (2nd ed.), published in 2011 by Temple University Press. The authors’ landmark book chronicles how disability grew from being associated with pity and ‘poster children’ used for raising money to a grass roots disability-rights based movement that pressured governments to change laws. Taking on topics including deinstitutionalization and independent living, physician-assisted suicide, and struggle sin the courts, the authors present a fascinating look at how disabled people have been percieved has changed so much. Douglas Baynton’s Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics published in 2016 by University of Chicago Press. In this book the author asserts that immigration history has traditionally focused in limiting immigrants according to race and ethnicity, overlooking disability. He goes on to explain in fascinating detail about policies of the US government to keep “defectives” from entering the country. Kim Neilson’s A Disability History of the United States (Revisioning American History) published in 2013 by Beacon Press. Covering a period from pre-1492 to the present, this book places disability at the center of telling the narrative of US history. Somewhere between a familiar framework and a radical repositioning, this text requires the reader to re-think dis/ability and its relation to slavery, immigration, and gender discrimination. Sara F. Rose’s No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s-1930s, published in 2017 by University of North Carolina Press. The author focuses upon how during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with many types of disabilities came to be labeled as “unproductive citizens.” Charting the confluence of industrialization, public policies, and shifting family structures, and the gravitation for disabled people from workplace and homes to institutions, she relates disability and labor history in ways that lead us to question the demands of modern society places upon the bodies of its citizens. Paul Longmore and Lauri Umansky’s The New Disability History: American Perspectives published in 2001 by New York University Press. The authors open up disability’s hidden history by looking at religious, medical, and cultural misunderstandings. By charting the lives of disabled citizens in different historical times, the authors illuminate hospitals, schools, and courtrooms that have helped shaped what society knows about disability. Joseph Shapiro’s No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement published in 1994 by Broadway Books. This “classic” paperback book presents a constellation of topics that engage the reader, including cultural forms of pity, the damage done by many disability charities, the growth of independent living, the manufacturing and marketing of wheelchairs, and the worthiness of every life. Although over two decades old, it is a compelling read as it was one of the first to challenge widespread traditional thinking about disability. Books on Disability Studies David Connor, Jan Valle, & Chris Hale’s edited book Practicing Disability Studies in Education, Acting Toward Social Change published in 2014 by Peter Lang. The editors invited scholars from around the world to reveal ways in which they utilize Disability Studies in Education with Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. All chapters share a similar grounding in seeking to create different and improved ways of understanding human differences. Lennard Davis’s The Disability Studies Reader edited book The Disability Studies Reader (4th edition) published by Routledge in 2013. This epic text is structured in six sections historical perspectives, the politics of disability, stigma and illness, theorizing disability, identities and intersectionalities, disability and culture, along with fiction, memoir, and poetry. It is widely considered the definitive volume of disability studies. Dan Goodley’s Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction published in 2017 by Sage. The author examines a diverse range of theories and perspectives toward engaging in current debates within the interdisciplinary

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