The Representation of People with Visual Impairment in Films
Abstract This article intends to be an approach to how cinema has dealt with the reality of people suffering from visual impairment. More specifically, it is an attempt to analyze the common descriptions that have been made of blind people in films and the stereotypes that have been identified as representing them. For this purpose 12 films, produced between 1962 and 2009, with people with visual impairment among their characters, are analysed. Although advances have been made in cinema towards the eradication of stereotypes linked to the image of blind people, in films there are still representations that have little to do with the reality of people suffering from visual impairment.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.2511/rpsd.32.1.66
Byrd EK. A study of film depiction of specific characteristics of characters with disability in film. J Appl Rehabil Counsel. 1989; 20: 43-44.
Erickson W, Wolfe D. Images of blind and visually impaired people in the movies 1913-1985. An annotated filmography with noted. New York: American Foundation for the Blind; 1985.
Nelson JA. The disables, the media, and the information age. Westport (CT): Greendood Press; 1994.
Norden MF. El cine del aislamiento. El discapacitado en la historia del cine. Madrid: Escuela Libre Editorial; 1998.
Badia Corbella, M., & Sánchez-guijo Acevedo, F. (2010). The Representation of People with Visual Impairment in Films. Journal of Medicine and Movies, 6(2), 69–77. Retrieved from https://revistas.usal.es/cinco/index.php/medicina_y_cine/article/view/13796
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