Disability and Dissensus: Strategies of Disability Representation and Inclusion in Contemporary Culture

Katarzyna Ojrzyńska, Ph.D. (2013), is Assistant Professor at the University of Lodz, Poland. She has published widely on cultural disability studies and Irish studies, and translated Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s book on staring into Polish (forthcoming in 2020). Maciej Wieczorek is a doctoral candidate at the University of Lodz, Poland. He has published a number of articles on political theatre, and translated the seminal “The Fundamental Principles of Disability” (UPIAS) into Polish.

• AcknowledgementsIllustrationsAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsDisability and DissensusKatarzyna Ojrzyńska and Maciej WieczorekPart 1(Re)Defining Models of Disability and Normalcy: Theories and Contexts1 Critical Disability Studies in the HumanitiesRosemarie Garland-Thomson and Katarzyna Ojrzyńska2 Critical Disability Studies: Sketches from Poland and the UKDan Goodley and Marek Mackiewicz-Ziccardi3 Making Sense of Bodies: Models and Metaphors in Sciences and ArtsMałgorzata SugieraPart 2Disability Film Festivals: The Politics of Representation and Participation4 Disability Cinema: Charting Alternative Ethical Maps of Living on FilmDavid T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder5 Disability Film Festivals: The Spaces where Crip Killjoys Take ActionMaria TsakiriPart 3Between the Real and the Reel6 Disability, Gender, and Innocence: Russ Meyer’s Mudhoney and Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!and Problems of Signification in CinemaMurray K. Simpson7 “Never the Twain Shall Meet”: Myth and Miracles in Jessica Hauser’s 2009 Film LourdesJames CaseyPart 4Bodies that Matter: Representing and Experiencing Non-Standard Physiques8 A Dwarf – A Metaphor and a Body in Words and ImagesAgnieszka Izdebska9 Disability and Its Doubles: The Conflicting Discourses of Disability in Susan Nussbaum’s No One as NastyEdyta Lorek-JezińskaPart 5Beyond Therapy10 Between Therapy and Art: Borderline Space in Polish Theatre of People with Intellectual (Dis)Ability Dorota Krzemińska and Jolanta Rzeźnicka-Krupa11 ‘…and we all’: The Phenomenon of Theatre 21 Wiktoria Siedlecka-DoroszPart 6From Life to Stage and Screen: Blue Teapot’s Sanctuary12 Shooting Actors who have Intellectual Disabilities: A Reflexive Analysis on the Making of the Feature Film SanctuaryLen Collin13 Christian O’Reilly Talks about His Writing on Disability for the Stage and for the ScreenChristian O’ReillyDisability, Dis(sensual)Art, and the Politics of ParticipationMaciej Wieczorek and Katarzyna OjrzyńskaIndex