A new research article published in the Disability and Society Journal, Taylor and Francis, has introduced a new model for understanding disabilities and disabled people. According to the research article, the Bad belle model of disabilities can be used to understand how disabilities and disabled people are framed in cinema and certain cultures where the […]
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A new research that centres the experiences of Deaf film and TV professionals in the UK has found that deaf film and TV professionals are sometimes hired to simply tick the box on diversity quotas in organisations. This tokenism has led many deaf professionals to consider changing professions and exploring other sectors where their skills
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Disabilities in Media and the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (GADIM) have now further expanded on the toolkit for representing disabilities in films and television. This handy toolkit illustrates what disabled people and disability advocates want the representation of disabilities to be in films and, more broadly, in television. It is prepared
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As part of a post-doctoral plan of activities, Ms Ngozi Marion Emmanuel, a post-doc at the School of Media, Communication and Sociology, organised a workshop on Cinema as Protest, to advance some of the discussions from an initial workshop on “Films and the Rest of Us” and co-create a toolkit for portraying disabilities in films.
Over 60 people participated in the ESRC/IAA funded event on “Films and the Rest of Us,” a workshop on films and disability rights which was held as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science (FOSS) in November 2021 to discuss the impact and influence of films on disability inclusion and perception of disabilities within
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Disability misrepresentation in media is a pervasive problem that has far-reaching consequences for disabled people. Misrepresentations can take many forms, from stereotypical portrayals to outright erasure, and can perpetuate harmful myths and stereotypes that contribute to ableism and discrimination. One common form of disability misrepresentation is the use of able-bodied actors to play disabled characters.
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