Is the word disability 'limiting' because of emphasis on what disabled people cannot do.
Disabled people tend to prefer the term 'dif-abled'
around 11.9 million disabled people in the UK rough;y 19%
Bransrons and stafford 2001- soaps rely on archetypal characters and stereotypes - ensure ready accessibility because stories have universal appeal about families and communities
stereotypes are about power, those who have power stereotype those who do not have power.
Paul Hunt 1966 - 'We are tree of being statistics, case, wonderfully courageous examples to the work, pit bale objects to stimulate funding'
5 examples where disabled people have features in films/ dramas / the news
Breaking Bad - Walter JR. Flynn
The undatables
Glee -Artie
Eastenders - Donna
disability representation
Charles Dickens A christmas carol (1883) Bob crachhit carries tiny tim in a scene from the 2009 Disney verso of a christmas carol
pitiable
pathetic
charities such as children in need
how are the disabled mediated
is the representation useful of detrimental?
the representations are useful as they allow the viewers an insight into their lives and makes them aware of what they endure and provide them with some understanding of their condition
however a lot of charities just show the bad and showing disabled people as completely helpless, forcing the audience to be sympathetic towards the victims and therefore will economically benefit from the audiences pity.
Just because people may have slight impairments, stereotypes on disability can cause people to assume that they are instantly less able
REPRESENTATION ON DISABILITY
- presents them as dependant on charity
- presents them as unable to look after themselves/ a burden
- mediation purpose is to engender sympathy/pity
- patronising
Disabled person is an object of violence and evil
Charles Darwin - Survival of the fittest - set of beliefs and practices that aims of improving the genetic quality of the human population
Eugenicists - reiterate ancient traditional fears that disabled people were a serious threat to British and european society. They set out to safeguard humanities future nu preventing the reproduction of defectives by sterilisation and segregation. - Hitler & Jewish race
Does british society undervalue disabled people, in what way?
positive and negative
+Paralympics
+the theory of everything ]
+financial support
+legislation
+disabled mp's
+/-Parking spaces
disability is underrepresented
Statistics
disabled children are more likely to be abandoned by their parents than their able bodied pears.
they have less chance of being adopted
they are more prone to physical and sexual abuse.
Blazzing saddles - disabled man chained up and beaten and mocked
Full Metal Jacket - main character is slightly autistic
hangover - Alan - autistic
Bond films - skyfall (silva) and more
The bible - Cripples are connected to sin and sinners
Disabled people are more likely to be introverted and sensitive than violent and aggressive
they are more likely to avoid rather than attack others
disabled person as atmosphere of Curio
Disabled people are sometimes included in the story lines of films and tv dramas to enhance a certain atmosphere, usually one of menace mystery of deprivation, or to add character to the visual impact of the production. This dilutes the humanity of disabled people by reducing them to objects of curiosity.
300 - film -
lives too short - Ricky Gervais and Warwick Davis- comedy figure, reliant on others
Disabled person as their own worst enemy, burden and as sexually abnormal
Disabled person is an object of ridicule
being mocked publicly is only acceptable if the negative images which ensue can be offset against positive one, or if those being ridiculed are able to defend themselves should they chose
At present there are virtually no positive images of disabled people in the media
disabled people to not have the resources/legal documentation to fight this discrimination
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