NoBody’s Perfect: Charm, Willfulness and Resistance
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Keywords
disability aesthetics, crip killjoys, wilfulness
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the representations of disabled bodies on the basis of Niko von Glasow’s documentary film NoBody’s Perfect. Drawing on disability aesthetics (Siebers, 2006) and the notion of crip killjoys (Johnson & McRuer, 2014), it is argued that representations of crip killjoys and their unruly corporeality offer an aesthetic and political context in which the politics of disgust and resentment can be challenged (Hughes, 2015; Soldatic & Meekosha, 2012).
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Garland-Thomson, R. (2009). Staring: How we look (1st ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.
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Johnson, M., & McRuer, R. (2014). Cripistemologies: Introduction. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 8(2), 127–148. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/jlcds.2014.12
Karagianni, P., (2017) Η αναπηρία στην Ελλάδα της κρίσης, Αθήνα: Gutenberg.
Lapper, A. (2006). My life in my hands (2nd ed.). London: Pocket Books.
McBryde-Johnson, H. (2003). Unspeakable conversations. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/16/magazine/unspeakable-conversations.html.
McRuer, R. (2006). Crip theory: Cultural signs of queerness and disability (1st ed.). New York: New York UP.
Millet-Gallant, A. (2010). The disabled body in contemporary art (1st ed.). New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
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Siebers, T. (2008). Disability theory (1st ed.). Ann Arbor, Mich: University of Michigan Press.
Snyder, S., & Mitchell, D. (2008). How do we get all these disabilities in here?’: Disability Film Festivals and the Politics of Atypicality. Revue Canadienne D'études Cinématographiques / Canadian Journal Of Film Studies, 17(1), 11–29. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/24408416.
Soldatic, K., & Meekosha, H. (2012). The place of disgust: Disability, class and gender in spaces of workfare. Societies, 2(3), 139–156. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc2030139
von Glasow, N. (Director), (2008). NoBody’s Perfect [Motion Picture]. Germany: Palladio Film GmbH & Co. KG.