The BFI's

white sticks, wheels and crutches

Disability and Film Catalogue

 

Introduction

From The British Film Institute

General Information

Programming Ideas

The Politics of Disability

Disability in Early and
Silent Cinema 1895 -1928

Alcoholism, AIDS and Disability

Where Are the Real Disabled

Mat Fraser & Nabil Shaban
actors first - disabled second?

Films Available from the BFI

Short Films - by or about disabled people

Steve Dwoskin - avant-guard filmmaker

Tod Browning – friend to freaks

Genres (Horror, Melodrama
Social Realism, Documentary ... )

The Cripple, the Retard and the Loony –
Bad Language and the 'Idiot' Comedy Genre

The Big Three: ‘the Blind, the Deaf
and the Wheelchair-user’

Lionel Barrymore – Wheelchair Using
and Film Star

Archiving Moving Images of Disability

Acting and Disability

Lon Chaney – The Man of a
Thousand Faces

Trends

Herbert Marshall –
A True Disabled Film Star

Gender, Race and Disability

Disability and Sexuality

Euthanasia, Eugenics
and Institutionalisation

National Differences

Conclusion

Checklist of Feature Films
with Disability Content

Disability-specific Film Festivals

Contacting a Local Organisation
of Disabled People

Recommended Journals that cover
Disability and Film

Funding for Disabled Filmmakers

Reading

Subject Index

Film Index

Disabilty and Films Timeline

 
 
bfi 2003 Publication - A4 Size


 

 

Karl Malden in Dario Argento's

Cat O'Nine Tails (1971, Italy/France/Germany)

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