Learn More About Disability & Society Through Film

2003 "information package" on Disability Studies Contains a list of films and documentaries. National Resource Center on Supported Living and Choice, Syracuse University.

Dr Paul Darke's Disability and Film On-Line Page. The British film theory specialist who is the originator of Normality Theory and who has written extensively on identity and culture. His thesis appears online: "The Cinematic Construction of Physical Disability as Identified Through the Application of the Social Model of Disability to Six Indicative Films Made since 1970: A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg, The Raging Moon (1970), The Elephant Man (1980), Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981), Duet For One (1987) and My Left Foot (1989)."

Disability Films Detailed list of 2,500 feature films which involve in one way or another various disabilities. It is directed toward teachers, students and anyone who has an interest in how disability is represented in films.

Recent Award Winning Films from Around the World is a list of 25 disability themed films with a brief description of each. Disability World.

Mobility International USA has produced three videos on topics of disability and international issues: (1) All Abroad!, (2) Loud, Proud and Passionate®, and (3) Loud, Proud and Prosperous® A Video Documentary.

Commentaries & Reviews

Disability & Society is a scholarly journal publishing commentaries on films:

From Freaks to Savants: disability and hegemony from The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) to Sling Blade. Fiona Whittington-Walsh. Disability & Society. Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 695-707. October 1, 2002.

Decontextualizing disability in the crime mystery genre: the case of the invisible handicap. Frederic W. Hafferty and Susan Foster. Disability & Society. Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 185-206. January 1994.

Disabling Imagery and the Media an Exploration of the Principles for Media Representations of Disabled People. (The first in a series of reports.) Colin Barnes. The British Council of Organizations of Disabled People. Ryburn Publishing. Halifax, England. (.pdf format). Read in html.