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This collection combines adaptation and disability studies to examine the ways that popular cultural remakes, reboots, and adaptations navigate representations of mental disability and health. The chapters analyze the ways that narratives of disability are framed not only by worldviews but also by the media which structure and inform them.
List of contents
Introduction
Whitney Hardin & Julia E. Kiernan
Part I: Imagining and Broadening Narratives of Disability
Chapter One: The Prosthetic Self: Drag and Disability in the Figure of RuPaul
John W. Gulledge
Chapter Two: Adapting Medical Reports into Narrative Film: Autism, Eugenics, and Savagery in Truffaut's L'Enfant sauvage (The Wild Child, 1970)
Joy C. Schaefer
Chapter Three: Remaking the Image of Autism: Why and How Comics Should Reboot Autistic Representation
Robert Rozema
Chapter Four: An Atypical Interaction with a Typical World: Viewing Coming-of-Age through the Lens of Disability Studies in Robia Rashid's Atypical
Anamika Purohit
Chapter Five: "But can we agree that he's unwell?": Narrative Resistance in Legion's Approach to Mental Disability
Julia E. Kiernan
Chapter Six: Diagnosing Mental and Moral Disability in Post 9/11 Popular American Film Narrative
Carol Donelan
Part II: Renegotiating and Resisting Narratives of Disability
Chapter Seven: "A document in madness"? Disability Erasure in Contemporary Rewrites of Ophelia
Lindsay Adams
Chapter Eight: "You're all about 'crazy'": Rendering the Visibility of Trauma in Alias and Jessica Jones
Whitney Hardin
Chapter Nine: Subspaces Run Through Your Head: Scott Pilgrim, Intertextuality, and Visualizing the Traumatized Mind
William Guy Spriggs
Chapter Ten: Minding the Gap: Adaptation of and Mental Disability in Quiet Life (1990, 1995)
Rea Amit
Chapter Eleven: Adapting Autism in Telenovelas: Venevisión's La Mujer Perfecta and the Trace of Esmeralda
Martín Ponti
Chapter Twelve: Female Representations of Autism and Disability in Telenovelas: La Mujer Perfecta
Andrea Urrutia Gómez
Index
About the Contributors
About the author
Whitney Hardin is assistant professor of communication at Kettering University.
Julia E. Kiernan is assistant professor of communications at Lawrence Technological University.
Summary
This collection combines adaptation and disability studies to examine the ways that popular cultural remakes, reboots, and adaptations navigate representations of mental disability and health. The chapters analyze the ways that narratives of disability are framed not only by worldviews but also by the media which structure and inform them.
