Authenticity in Representations of Down Syndrome in Contemporary Cinema: The "Supercrip" in The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019).
The issue of disability and its representation in the media offers a useful example for studying the relationship between hegemonical discourses and marginal narratives. Disability has been used previously to identify the workings of a dominant ideology (Mitchell 17), but its role as an experience o...
| Publicado en: | Ekphrasis (2067-631X) Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 26 - 41 |
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Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Theatre & Television
2021
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