Documentary and Disability

1. Introduction: The Bricolage of Documentary and Disability
Catalin Brylla, Helen Hughes

Part I. Film Practice

2. Not Without Us: Collaborating across Difference in Documentary Filmmaking
Samuel Avery

3. Visual Psychological Anthropology and the Lived Experience of Disability
Annie Tucker, Robert Lemelson

4. Valorising Disability on Screen: When Did ‘Inspirational’ Become a Dirty Word?
Veronica Wain

5. Spectatorship and Alternative Portrayals of Blindness
Catalin Brylla

6. Aberrancy and Autobiographical Documentary
Phoebe Hart

Part II. Representation

7. Thomas Quasthoff and the Performativity of Disability in Michael Harder’s The Dreamer

Anna Drum, Martin Brady

8. Rethinking Ability and Disability in the Work of Johan van der Keuken
Hing Tsang

9. (Dis)abling the Spectator: Embodying Disability Experience in Animated Documentary
Slava Greenberg

10. The Poetics of Touch: Mediating the Reality of Deafblindness in Planet of Snail

Anne-Marie Callus

11. Sexual Dissidence and Crip Empowerment in Yes, We Fuck!

Andrea García-Santesmases Fernández

Part III. Identity, Participation and Exhibition

12. Accessing Alternative Ethical Maps of In(ter)depenent Living in Global Disability Documentary
David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder

13. Interface Productions and Disability Programming for Channel 4: 1984–1986
Tony Steyger, Jamie Clarke

14. Disability and the Para-TV Communities of Reality Television
Anita Biressi

15. Singing Altogether Now: Unsettling Images of Disability and Experimental Filmic Practices
Robert Stock

16. To Document is to Preserve: Moving Pictures and Sign Language
Magdalena Zdrodowska

17. Documenting Neuropolitics: Cochlear Implant Activation Videos
Beate Ochsner

18. On Andrew Kötting’s Mapping Perception

Helen Hughes

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Documentary, Disability Studies, Media and Communication, Sociology of the Body