Disability Representation Matters
These interviews explore why we should care about disability representations in the movies, and how these representations’ storytelling devices both create and reflect everyday experiences of disability.
These interviews include footage not seen in the final version of the film. They are organized into units and themes for community discussions and teaching.
Why do Hollywood Images matter so much?
From our pre-production archives: Riva Lehrer, Lynn Manning, Victoria Ann Lewis, Lawrence Carter-Long, Tekki Lomnicki, inspiration, assumptions of suicidality, Lucky Star, Wizard of Oz, disabled people in industry, lived experience, Push Girls
How Films Shape Attitudes
Films as lessons, spectatorship with Tommy Heffron
Using Disability as a Narrative Device
From our pre-production archives: Lynn Manning, Victoria Ann Lewis, Lawrence Carter-Long, storytelling craft, evil characters
Microaggressions
Multiple identities, dating and stereotyping with Candace Coleman
Disabled Characters as Outsiders
From our pre-production archives: individualizing disability, one-dimensional characterization, cure or kill, disability history and culture with Lawrence Carter-Long & Victoria Ann Lewis
Conflict between Deaf and Hearing Worlds
Trope of struggle, over-represented conflict with Crom Saunders