Animated Film and Disability
eBook - ePub

Animated Film and Disability

Cripping Spectatorship

  1. 222 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Animated Film and Disability

Cripping Spectatorship

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface: Call Me Trans Crip
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: Animation, Disability, and Spectatorship
  8. 1. Resisting the Ableist Gaze: Between Mainstream and Experimental Forms
  9. 2. Embodying Spectatorship: Intersubjective Ways of Being-in-the-World
  10. 3. Blinding the Spectator: Non-Vision-Centric Pleasures
  11. 4. Deafening the Spectator: Rethinking Sonic Pleasures and Audism
  12. 5. Toward Accessible Spectatorships
  13. Bibliography
  14. Filmography
  15. Index
  16. About the Author