We’re taking a break from producing new episodes of You First for a bit, so we’ll be re-releasing four older episodes that we feel are worth another listen. We’re starting things off with an episode that is from February 2021 called "Disability Media Representation." We spoke with Beth Haller and Jeff Preston, both of whom are university professors, authors, and experts on disability in the media. We had a great discussion about what’s been done both right and wrong with the portrayal of people with disabilities in both film and TV and the impact of streaming platforms on the movement. We kicked things off with an interesting discussion about what a disaster a movie called Music was that has been released not long before we recorded the episode.
Referenced in the episode:
- Routledge Companion to Disability and Media
- Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media
- The Fantasy of Disability: Images of Loss in Popular Culture
- Disability and Social Media: Global Perspectives
- Salon: Sia's directorial debut "Music" is a baffling and patronizing cringefest of ableist minstrelsy
- LISTEN: Film by CommunicationFIRST
- NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
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