Using the ICF to code and analyse women's disability narratives

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (12-13) ◽  
pp. 978-990 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colette H. Duggan ◽  
Kathie J. Albright ◽  
Anthony Lequerica
Keyword(s):  
Disability Narratives

scholarly journals Hyper-Normative Heroes, Othered Villains: Differential Disability Narratives in Marvel Movies and Shows

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Kane
Keyword(s):  
Disability Narratives ◽  
Marvel Cinematic Universe

Hyper-Normative Heroes, Othered Villains: Differential Disability Narratives in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Prosthetic Heroes

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Samuels
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Disabled Veterans ◽  
Disability Narratives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Roles ◽  
The U.S

Ellen Samuels examines Iron Man 3 (Shane Black, 2013), arguing that this film’s representations of veterans and disability reflected the social context in which increasing numbers of disabled veterans were returning to the U.S., with their futures uncertain. Drawing on veterans’ longstanding cultural roles as “heroes” or “villains,” this superhero film ultimately positions cure as both violent and mandatory, suggesting little cultural tolerance for veterans’ ongoing disabilities (specifically, PTSD and amputations) and the resources that such conditions would require. Bringing a disability studies reading to a Hollywood blockbuster, this chapter demonstrates the pervasiveness and power of disability narratives.

After School Special Education

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Passanante Elman
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Complex Terrain ◽  
Television Viewing ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
After School ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Educational Value ◽  
Disability Narratives ◽  
Teen Sexuality

In her analysis of ABC’s After School Specials (1972–1995), Julie Passanante Elman argues that disability was central to television's "turn toward relevance" and its construction of the "teen viewer." The Specials represented coming of age by consistently linking heterosexuality with able-bodiedness and metaphorically representing adolescence as a process of “overcoming disability.” Simultaneously, they redefined both teen television viewing and teen sexuality as productive rather than damaging. Articulating insights from disability studies to television studies, Elman demonstrates how the Specials’ disability narratives negotiated the complex terrain of teen sexuality, representations of disability, and an assertion of commercial television’s educational value.

Experiencing occupations with chronic hand disability: narratives of hand-injured adults

Hand Therapy ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 87-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernadette Ammann ◽  
Ton Satink ◽  
Mette Andresen
Keyword(s):  
Disability Narratives ◽  
Hand Disability

scholarly journals Materiality, mediation and affective encounters: ‘Rising Phoenix’ and the cultural representation of disability

2021 ◽  
pp. 101269022110321
Author(s):  
Emma Pullen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Cultural Representation ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Sport Media ◽  
Disability Narratives ◽  
Modes Of Representation ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
Affective Dimensions

Paralympic and Para sport representation has provided an important cultural site from which to explore the role of popular disability media in shaping everyday disability knowledge(s) through relations of power, ideology and meaning. Yet limited attention has been afforded to the affective dimensions of Para sport media that may help extend our understanding of its performative power on audiences. In critique of the recent Netflix Paralympic documentary film, ‘Rising Phoenix’, this article affords particular attention to the production of disability affects through the cinematic entanglement of things, bodies and language that work to involve audiences on an affective, emotional and sensorial level. Drawing on Sara Ahmed's (2004) cultural politics of emotion, it is argued that the film produces an economy of disability affects that contribute to the qualitative affective qualities of the film yet operate to (re-)configure sites of disabled normativity, gendered disability relations and nourish ‘supercrip’ and ‘medico-tragedy’ disability narratives. Attention is paid to the implications of this and the role of sport documentary film more widely in generating affective modes of representation for marginalised sporting groups.

scholarly journals Sacred Positions: A Personal History of Blindness and Singing

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily K. Michael
Keyword(s):  
Personal History ◽  
A Cappella ◽  
Sacred Harp ◽  
Disability Narratives ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cooperative Power

This narrative essay explores a blind singer's experience with church singing, a cappella competitions, and Sacred Harp singing. In it, Emily K. Michael maps the conflicts between pervasive disability narratives and audience expectations, as well as the evolving challenges of each genre. Michael discovers that audiences carry the alluring myth of a cure across genres and venues. She comes to privilege the cooperative power of Sacred Harp singing, where personal talent and conventional rehearsal give way to immediacy and welcome. Sacred Harp singing helps Michael transform her own destructive beliefs and the problematic stories of blindness she has encountered.

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