Posts Tagged ‘ Media and Disability ’

Did you know: Almost 90 per cent of are people with some form of disability? So says, forensic expert Yusuf Yadgari. Every suicide bomber’s body in Kabul-based attacks passes through Dr. Yadgari’s morgue. He has so far detected such disabilities as muscular dystrophy, amputated toes, blindness, skin diseases and signs of mental...
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No comments yet from me but as a follower of Charlaine Harris’ “Southern Vampire” novels with whom I had the pleasure of speaking recently, found this quite interesting/exciting. Anna Paquin finds “True” calling for HBO By Nellie Andreeva Oscar winner Anna Paquin is making her first foray into series television as the lead in...
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http://www.newmobility.com/review_article.cfm?id=690&action=browse Access Hollywood:  Disability in Recent Film and Television is a very interesting article, although a bit dated.  I picked it out as it has a very detailed list of various movies both blockbuster and less well known that include people with disabilities. “Hollywood’s acceptance of disability runs parallel to society in general.  As the mass...
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I could not resist the following article – Reality TV puts Disabled Women in Beauty Show from the Times (UK) from December 27th, 2006 All I can say is – wow. Basically the Netherlands have a show, complete with swimsuit contest where people with disabilities (visible disabilities), women specifically compete in a beauty pageant....
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Four documentaries on the Iraq War and its aftermath are playing at the fifth annual Tribeca film festival, which was founded in the wake of 9/11 to help revive Lower Manhattan and promote the film industry in New York.I just want to put a few comments in about a couple of them: “Home Front,”...
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I found a very interesting article from the November issue of the Ragged Edge Magazine at: http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/blogs/edgecentric/archives/2005/11/the_bad_blind.html The author did a basic Internet search on the word “blind.”  What was fascinating to me and also the author was the prevalence of the use of the word “blind” to intimate something bad. Not just bad...
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This article about the UK Disability Film Festival caught my eye. It looked really interesting. What I wondered was I wonder how many of the films actually make it into regular film festivals? How many disability-related films are accepted as part of the mainstream film and movie industry?  The only film that I recognized...
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Wow. The New York Times Magazine had an article that was published on September 25th. The content of the article has gone through the blind and visually impaired community like wildfire. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/magazine/25food.html?oref=login Is the URL and it is called Eat, Memory: Line of Sight The article involves the owner/manager/head chef of a restaurant who...
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