Cultures of Representation

Benjamin Fraser is professor of Hispanic studies at East Carolina University. Among his book publications are Disability Studies and Spanish Culture: Films, Novels, the Comic, and the Public Exhibition and Deaf History and Culture in Spain: A Reader of Primary Documents. He is the executive editor of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, a senior editor at the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, an associate editor at Hispania, and coeditor of the Hispanic Urban Studies book series.

• Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: Disability Studies, World Cinema and the Cognitive Code of Reality, by Benjamin Fraser Global In(ter)dependent Disability Cinema: Targeting Ephemeral Domains of Belief and Cultivating Aficionados of the Body, by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder 'Beyond Forgiveness'? Lee Chang-dong's Oasis (2002) and the Mobilisation of Disability Discourses in the Korean New Wave, by Paul Petrovic Refusing Chromosomal Pairing: Inclusion, Disabled Masculinity, Sexuality and Intimacy in Yo mama, tambien (2009), by Michael Gill Dunce! Duffer! Dimwit!: Dyslexia in Bollywood's Taare Zameen Par (2007), by Sanjukta Ghosh Landscapes of Children: Picturing Disability in Bunuel's Los olvidados (1950), by Susan Antebi Fearful Reflections: Representations of Disability in Postwar Dutch Cinema (1973-2011), by Mitzi Waltz 'People Endure': The Function of Autism in Anton's Right Here (2012), by Jose Alaniz Displaying Autism: The Thinking and Images of Temple Grandin (2010), by Katherine Lashley More than the 'Other'? On Four Tendencies Regarding the Representation of Disability in Contemporary German Film (2005-2010), by Petra Anders The Other Body: Psychiatric Disability and Pedro Almodovar (1988-2011), by Candace Skibba On the Road to Normalcy: European Road Movies and Disability (2002-2011), by Anna Grebe Re-envisioning Italy's 'New Man' in Bella non piangere! (1955), by Jennifer Griffiths 'Get Your Legs Back': Avatar (2009) and the Re-booting of American Individualism, by Susan Flynn Through the Disability Lens: Revisiting Ousmane Sembene's Xala (1975) and Camp de Thiaroye (1988), by Ken Junior Lipenga Homes Wretched and Wrecked: Disability as Social Dis-ease in Kurosawa's Dodes'ka-den (1970), by James A. Wren Leprosy and the Dialectical Body in Forugh Farrokhzad's The House is Black (1964), by Rosa Holman Index

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