Animated Film and Disability

Cripping Spectatorship

Slava Greenberg (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

222 Seiten

2023
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-06449-3 (ISBN)

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While many live-action films portray disability as a spectacle, "crip animation" (a genre of animated films that celebrates disabled people's lived experiences) uses a variety of techniques like clay animation, puppets, pixilation, and computer-generated animation to represent the inner worlds of people with disabilities. Crip animation has the potential to challenge the ableist gaze and immerse viewers in an alternative bodily experience.

In Animated Film and Disability, Slava Greenberg analyzes over 30 animated works about disabilities, including Rocks in My Pockets, An Eyeful of Sound, and A Shift in Perception. He considers the ableism of live-action cinematography, the involvement of filmmakers with disabilities in the production process, and the evocation of the spectators' senses of sight and hearing, consequently subverting traditional spectatorship and listenership hierarchies. In addition, Greenberg explores physical and sensory accessibility in theaters and suggests new ways to accommodate cinematic screenings.

Offering an introduction to disability studies and crip theory for film, media, and animation scholars, Animated Film and Disability demonstrates that crip animation has the power to breach the spectator's comfort, evoking awareness of their own bodies and, in certain cases, their social privileges.

Slava Greenberg is a Casden Institute postdoctoral teaching fellow at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts and Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies. His research explores the potential of mainstream and emerging media forms to offer transformative experiences in reference to disability studies, trans studies, and gender. His articles have appeared in Film Quarterly, TSQ, Animation, The Moving Image, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Review of Disability Studies, and Jewish Film and New Media. He has also contributed to anthologies on disability and documentary, accent studies, queer television studies, and new media. He is currently writing a second book focusing on the history and visual culture of gender dysphoria through the lens of trans and crip theories.

PREFACE: CALL ME TRANS-CRIP
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION: ANIMATION, DISABILITY, AND SPECTATORSHIP
1. RESISTING THE ABLEIST GAZE: BETWEEN MAINTREAM AND EXPERIMENTAL FORMS
2. EMBODYING SPECTATORSHIP: INTERSUBJECTIVE WAYS OF BEING-IN-THE-WORLD
3. BLINDING THE SPECTATOR: NON-VISION-CENTRIC PLEASURES
4. DEAFENING THE SPECTATOR: RETHINKING SONIC PLEASURES AND AUDISM
5. TOWARD ACCESSIBLE SPECTATORSHIPS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
FILMOGRAPHY
INDEX

Erscheinungsdatum	11.11.2022
Zusatzinfo	22 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-253-06449-X / 025306449X
ISBN-13	978-0-253-06449-3 / 9780253064493
Zustand	Neuware