Event Title
Life's too Short: A Comical Turn in Disability in the Media
Location
Goldstein Student Center
Event Website
http://crippingthecon.com/
Start Date
11-4-2013 2:00 PM
End Date
11-4-2013 3:30 PM
Description
This paper suggests that there is a significant “turn” in media representation of disabled people which can be attributed to new forms of agency taken on by disabled actors such as Warwick Davis in the “dwarf mockumentary” Life’s Too Short, who are able to bridge embodied life experience and fictional comedic performance.
Life's too Short: A Comical Turn in Disability in the Media
Goldstein Student Center
This paper suggests that there is a significant “turn” in media representation of disabled people which can be attributed to new forms of agency taken on by disabled actors such as Warwick Davis in the “dwarf mockumentary” Life’s Too Short, who are able to bridge embodied life experience and fictional comedic performance.
https://surface.syr.edu/bts_conf/2013/Presentations/8
Comments
Full presentation will be available in August 2013.