On Sat, 2 May 1998, William A Goodman wrote: > I'm researching the representations of disabled characters and the > scarcity of such characters in film, and was wondering if anyone could > direct me toward any helpful resources? Thanks. Ah, one of my favorite subjects. You might start with the following texts: A. Gartner and T. Joe (eds.). _Images of the Disabled, Disabling Images_. NY: Praeger 1987. L. Klobas. _Disability Drama in Television and Film_. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1988. J. Morris. _Pride Against Prejudice: Transforming Attitudes to Disability_. Philadelphia: New Society, 1991. M. Norden. _The Cinema of Isolation: A History of Physical Disability in the Movies_. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers U. Press, 1994. M. Russo. _The Female Grotesque: Risk, Excess and Modernity_. NY: Routledge, 1995. J. Schuchman. _Hollywood Speaks: Deafness and the Film Entertainment Industry_. Urbana: U. of Illinois Press, 1988. D. Skal and E. Savada. _Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning_. NY: Anchor, 1995. [TB frequently included disabled characters in his films] Please check out my home page for more info related to the social construction of disability (in the movies and elsewhere). The URL's below. --Marty Norden --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin F. Norden OO Dept. of Communication, Box 34815 [log in to unmask] [_]<| University of Massachusetts-Amherst fax: 413 545-6399 /|\ Amherst, MA 01003-4815 USA vox: 413 545-0598, 545-1311 home page: http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~norden --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama.