Representations of Disability in Film o Elephant Man (1980) o Mask (1985) EUGENICS (SELECTIVE BREEDING, ABORTION, • Hands EUTHANASIA, STERILIZATION) o Edward Scissorhands (1990) • Extreme Measures (1996) • Body • Tomorrow’s Children (1934) o The Box (2009) [foot, 4 toes gone] • Gattaca (1997) o The Brood (1979) o Hellboy (2004) CARNIVAL • The Brood (1979) AUDITION IMPAIRMENT • Freaks (1932) • deafness • Nightmare Alley (1947) o Beyond Silence (1996) • Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) o The Box (2009) [threat of deafness & blindness in one’s child] MOBILITY IMPAIRMENT / LIMBS o The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968) • cerebral palsy o Children of a Lesser God (1986) o My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown o Immortal Beloved (1994) (1989) o Mr. Holland’s Opus (1995) See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) • dwarfism o There Will Be Blood (2007) o The Brood (1979) o o Freaks (1932) • mute o Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) o The Spiral Staircase (1946) o Willow (1988) • faked audition problem • epilepsy o The Quiet (2005) o Garden State (2004) VISION IMPAIRMENT • mobility problems o Born on the Fourth of July (1989) • shortsightedness o Extreme Measures (1996) o My Boy Jack (2007) o Forrest Gump (1994) • blindness o Lost: Season One (2003-2004) o Afraid of the Dark (1991) o Million Dollar Baby (2004) o Blind Fear (1989) o Our Mutual Friend (1998) o Blindness (2008) o Pumpkin (2002) o Blink (1994) o Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) o The Box (2009) [threat of deafness & • missing limb blindness] o Terry (2005) o Butterflies Are Free (1972) o Bad Day at Black Rock (1995) o The Color of Paradise (1999) o Born on the Fourth of July (1989) o Dancer in the Dark (2000) o The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) o Scent of a Woman (1992) o The Fugitive (1993) [blu-ray] o Seven Pounds (2008) See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) • extra digits o The Village (2004) o The Princess Bride (1987) o o Wait Until Dark (1967) • paraplegia recovery from blindness o Garden State (2004) • o At First Sight (1999) • polio o Seven Pounds (2008) o Warm Springs (2005) • faked blindness • prosthesis o Wise Blood (1979) o I, Robot (2004) • hyperbolic supercrip • stunted limb o Daredevil (2003) o Finding Nemo (2003) o The Eye (2002) • supercrip

o Aeon Flux (2005): feet removed and hands CHRONIC DISEASE attached asthma • Signs (2002) EXTRAORDINARY BODIES / DISFIGUREMENT o • brain cloud • Facial o Joe vs. the Volcano (1990) o Bleak House (1985) cancer (kidney) o Bleak House (2005) • Terry (2005) o Elephant Man (1980) o My Life (1993) o Freaks (1932) o Craniodiaphyseal Dysplasia (Lionitis) • Craniodiaphyseal Dysplasia (Lionitis) • o Elephant Man (1980) o Mask (1985) • traumatic learning • heart disease o Unleashed (2005) o Seven Pounds (2008) • trauma to head o Gattaca (1997) o Dominick and Eugene (1988) • cystic fibrosis o Regarding Henry (À Propos d’Henry) (1991) o The Book of Stars (1999) • Lou Gehrig’s Disease MENTAL ILLNESS o Tuesdays with Morrie (2002) • institutional life • osteogenesis imperfecta o Awakenings (1990) o Unbreakable (2000) o Bedlam (1946) • reproductive problems o Gothika (2003) o Children of Men (1968) o One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1976) • tuberculosis / consumption o The Princess and the Warrior (Der Krieger o Moulin Rouge (2001) und die Kaiserin) (2001) • vampirism o Quills (2000) o Blade (1998) o Twelve Monkeys (1996) o Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) • Alcoholism o I Am Legend (2007) o Clean and Sober (1988) o Omega Man (1971) o Nightmare Alley (1947) o Underworld (2003) • Anti Social Personality Disorder • virus o Apt Pupil (1998) o Outbreak (1995) o Capote (2005) o Contagion (2011) o A Clockwork Orange (1971) • misc o The Green Mile (1999) o Extreme Measures (1996) o A History of Violence (2005) o Monster (2003) COGNITIVE DISABILITY o No Country for Old Men (2007) • Asperger’s Syndrome • Delusional o Adam (2009) o The Innocents (1961) o Mary and Max (2009) o Spider (2002) • Autism o Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw o Autism: The Musical (2007) [put on reserve] (2004) o Mercury Rising (1999) o Gothika (2003) o Rain Man (1988) o The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) o Temple Grandin (2010) • Dementia • Mental Retardation o Dancing at Lughnasa (1999) o Being There (1979) • Depression o Charly (1968) o Melancholia (2011) o Digging to China (1997) • Kleptomania o Forrest Gump (1994) o Matchstick Men (2003) o Freaks (1932) • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder o The Green Mile (1999) o Benny and Joon (1993) o House of D (2004) o The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) o I Am Sam (2001) o The Brave One (2007) o The Idiots (1998) o The Brood (1979) o The Lawnmower Man (1992) o Fearless (1993) o Of Mice and Men (1992) o The Fisher King (1991) o The Other Sister (1999) o Flightplan (2005) o Radio (2003) o The Fountain (2006) o The Ring (2002) o Hamlet (1948) o The Secret Agent (1996) o Hamlet (1990) o Sling Blade (1996) o In the Valley of Elah (2007) o Twisted Nerve (1968) o Mrs. Dalloway (1997) o The Village (2004) o Seven Pounds (2008) o What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) o War of the Worlds (2005) • Simple Minded • ______o Breaking the Waves (1996) o Conspiracy Theory (1997) o Idiocracy (2006) • Therapy o Napoleon Dynamite (2004) o The Brood (1979) o Our Mutual Friend (1998) • Possession o Pumpkin (2002) o The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) o Tim (1979) o Gothika (2003) • Memory Problems/Issues o Final Cut (2004) o The Forgotten (2004) o Minority Report (2002) • Multiple Personality o Fight Club (1999)

Drug Addiction

Advanced Age • Great Expectations (1946) • Great Expectations (1981)

The Normate • Air Force One (1997): Harrison Ford as older but active and capable president • King Kong (2005)

Cloning • The Island (2005)

Death • Stranger than Fiction (2006) • Stay (2005)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)

Advanced Intelligence • Little Man Tate (1991)

Stepford Wives (2004)