Autism in Film and Television : : On the Island /

Autism in Film and Television : : On the Island / / ed. by R. Barton Palmer, Murray Pomerance.

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Global awareness of autism has skyrocketed since the 1980s, and popular culture has caught on, with film and television producers developing ever more material featuring autistic characters. Autism in Film and Television brings together more than a dozen essays on depictions of autism, exploring how...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2022
MitwirkendeR:
Austin-Smith, Brenda,
Becker, Christine,
Bell-Metereau, Rebecca,
Cipa, Matthew,
Clayton, Alex,
Hark, Ina Rae,
Hilsabeck, Burke,
Hopgood, Fincina,
Jacobs, Jason,
Lennard, Dominic,
Logan, Elliott,
McFarland, douglas,
Osteen, Mark,
Palmer, R. Barton,
Pomerance, Murray,
Sacco, Daniel,
Schulze, Joshua,
Varndell, Daniel,
Wilkins, Christina,
HerausgeberIn:
Palmer, R. Barton,
Pomerance, Murray,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 19 b&w photos
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • PREFACE Two Meditations
  • CHAPTER 1 Autistic Android? The Curious Instance of Star Trek’s Data
  • CHAPTER 2 Life, Animated: Adapting a Book about a Hero with Autism
  • CHAPTER 3 Where Is the Autism in Rain Man?
  • CHAPTER 4 The Good Doctor: Images of Autism and Augmented Intelligence
  • CHAPTER 5 Oddity and Catastrophe in The Big Short
  • CHAPTER 6 Diagnosing the Detective: Sherlock Holmes and Autism in Contemporary Television
  • CHAPTER 7 She’s So Unusual: The Autist in Stranger Things
  • CHAPTER 8 Autism, Performance, and Sociality: Isolated Attention in The Social Network
  • CHAPTER 9 Hidden Worlds of Female Autism
  • CHAPTER 10 Eye Contact in Juárez: Borderline Empathy and the Autistic Detective
  • CHAPTER 11 The Creative Evolution and Reception of Netfl ix’s Atypical
  • CHAPTER 12 Community’s Human Laugh Track: Neurodiversity in a Metamodern Sitcom
  • CHAPTER 13 Portrait of the Autist as a Young Man
  • CHAPTER 14 Due Diligence: Exploring ASD in Nightcrawler and The Accountant
  • CHAPTER 15 Mind the Gap: Autistic Viewpoint in Film
  • CHAPTER 16 Performative Restraint and the Challenges of Empathy in Being There and Phantom Thread
  • CHAPTER 17 “A Spoonful of Sugar”: Watching Movies Autistically
  • CHAPTER 18 David and Lisa: The Healing Power of the Group
  • CHAPTER 19 Jesse: Torture That Autist
  • Works Cited and Consulted
  • Photo Captions and Credits
  • Contributors
  • Index

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