Hey all- As someone working in disability studies here @ OSU, I've read all those e-mails with interest, and thought you might be interested in the following resources. Also, I think it depends on how far you want to extend the definition of disability. Lehman's chapters on scars and missing limbs, from Running Scared, for example, seems to fit. And something else occurs to me too here, just having watched Larry Flint. That is, how disability is often played or not play out on charters, even isn supposedly non-disabled stories. That is that thje only mention of disability in Flint is when he says, "I wish God would have killed me instead, cause I can't make love to a woman." An admitted sentiment, certainly. What I find objectionable, is that that particular line is noithing more than that old "Kill me or Cure me" paradigm, that the disabled community buys into/works against? But even though we do SEE Flint living with his disability for the rest of the film, that's not what we're left with. Ditto the whole Chris Reeve media frenzy. So I think it's important to think though these instances too, and how disability is played through, or not, in films. For some understanding of Disability Rights, etc. [and just good background reading] try Sharipo's *No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement.* As for my own disability picks, *Mask* is still one of my favorites, and we just showed Coming Home in a lit./film class here which has probably the most well done disability sex scene I've seen. I'd love to hear more about everyone's projects, but I not signed on to the listserve yet, so anyone who want can find me by snail mail or just e-mail me directly for the time being. Thanks, Johnson Cheu Bogdan, R., Biklen, D. Shapiro, A., and Spelkoman, D. "The Disabled: Media's Monster." Social Policy (Fall 1982): 32-35. Cumberbatch, Guy and Ralph Negrine. Images of Disability on Television. London: Routledge, 1992. Hevey, David. The Creatures Time Forgot: Photography and Disability Imagery. London: Routledge, 1992. Klobas, Lauri E. Disability Drama in Film and Television. Jefferson: McFarland, 1988. Johnson, Mary. "A Test of Wills: Jerry Lewis, Jerry's Orphans and the Telethon." In The Ragged Edge. ( formerly The Disability Rag) 13.5 (Sept./Oct. 1992): 4-9. Nordon, Martin F. The Cinema of Isolation: A History of Physical Disability in the Movies. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1994. Schuchman, S. Hollywood Speaks: Deafness and the Film Entertainment Industry. Urbana: U Illinois P, 1988. Wahl, Otto F. Media Madness: Public Images of Mental Illness. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1996. Zola, Irving K. "Depiction of Disability-metaphor, message and medium in the Media: A Research and Political Agenda." The Social Science Journal 22 (1985): 5-18. Johnson Cheu [log in to unmask] The Ohio State University Dept. of English 421 Denney Hall 164 W. 17th. Ave. Columbus, OH 43210 (614) 292-1730 (Office) (614) 292-6065 (Dept.) (614) 292-7816 (Fax) ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]