Autism in Film and Television
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Autism in Film and Television

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eBook - ePub

Autism in Film and Television

On the Island

About this book

Global awareness of autism has skyrocketed since the 1980s, and popular culture has caught on, with film and television producers developing ever more material featuring autistic characters. Autism in Film and Television brings together more than a dozen essays on depictions of autism, exploring how autistic characters are signified in media and how the reception of these characters informs societal understandings of autism.

Editors Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer have assembled a pioneering examination of autism's portrayal in film and television. Contributors consider the various means by which autism has been expressed in films such as Phantom Thread, Mercury Rising, and Life Animated and in television and streaming programs including Atypical, The Bridge, Stranger Things, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Community. Across media, the figure of the brilliant, accomplished, and "quirky" autist has proven especially appealing. Film and television have thus staked out a progressive position on neurodiversity by insisting on screen time for autism but have done so while frequently ignoring the true diversity of autistic experience. As a result, this volume is a welcome celebration of nonjudgmental approaches to disability, albeit one that is still freighted with stereotypes and elisions.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Preface: Two Meditations
  8. 1. Autistic Android? The Curious Instance of Star Trek’s Data
  9. 2. Life, Animated: Adapting a Book about a Hero with Autism
  10. 3. Where Is the Autism in Rain Man?
  11. 4. The Good Doctor: Images of Autism and Augmented Intelligence
  12. 5. Oddity and Catastrophe in The Big Short
  13. 6. Diagnosing the Detective: Sherlock Holmes and Autism in Contemporary Television
  14. 7. She’s So Unusual: The Autist in Stranger Things
  15. 8. Autism, Performance, and Sociality: Isolated Attention in The Social Network
  16. 9. Hidden Worlds of Female Autism
  17. 10. Eye Contact in JuĂĄrez: Borderline Empathy and the Autistic Detective
  18. 11. The Creative Evolution and Reception of Netflix’s Atypical
  19. 12. Community’s Human Laugh Track: Neurodiversity in a Metamodern Sitcom
  20. 13. Portrait of the Autist as a Young Man
  21. 14. Due Diligence: Exploring ASD in Nightcrawler and The Accountant
  22. 15. Mind the Gap: Autistic Viewpoint in Film
  23. 16. Performative Restraint and the Challenges of Empathy in Being There and Phantom Thread
  24. 17. “A Spoonful of Sugar”: Watching Movies Autistically
  25. 18. David and Lisa: The Healing Power of the Group
  26. 19. Jesse: Torture That Autist
  27. Works Cited and Consulted
  28. Photo Captions and Credits
  29. Contributors
  30. Index