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What is a fuckhead? David Rawson’s Fuckhead is a surreal exploration of the literature, film, nature and expectations of disability, and of fuckheads in literature and film. Part lyric essay, part fictional memoir, Rawson’s work tells the story of an unnamed narrator whose familial relationships are defined by his VATER syndrome. Abused by his mother and stripped of a voice by his brother’s need to be Tom Cruise via Rain Man, he sets out into a universe of literary tropes. I have always been of the mind that the novelist is allowed access to all experiences, as long as he ultimately has something to say. Plutarch and Samuel Johnson are typing somewhere in the desert of the next world, composing the ultimate collection of biographical criticism, explaining how David Lynch’s entire filmography owes a debt to his club feet. But I and the friends who bought my novel agree the author is dead. The work is particularly interested in the relationship between Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men and what the narrator argues is Denis Johnson’s reimagining of that work in the short story “Emergency” (in Johnson’s Jesus’ Son). But in accumulating characters with disabilities as widely diverse as Darth Vader, Benjy of Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, and the TV sitcom Community’s Abed Nadir, Rawson movingly, and with wry humor, articulates the assumptions and clichés faced by persons with disabilities, all the while creating a new family with his unlikely gathering of “fuckheads.”

People with disabilities. --- People with disabilities in motion pictures. --- disability studies --- memoir --- Faulkner --- Steinbeck

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What is a fuckhead? David Rawson’s Fuckhead is a surreal exploration of the literature, film, nature and expectations of disability, and of fuckheads in literature and film. Part lyric essay, part fictional memoir, Rawson’s work tells the story of an unnamed narrator whose familial relationships are defined by his VATER syndrome. Abused by his mother and stripped of a voice by his brother’s need to be Tom Cruise via Rain Man, he sets out into a universe of literary tropes. I have always been of the mind that the novelist is allowed access to all experiences, as long as he ultimately has something to say. Plutarch and Samuel Johnson are typing somewhere in the desert of the next world, composing the ultimate collection of biographical criticism, explaining how David Lynch’s entire filmography owes a debt to his club feet. But I and the friends who bought my novel agree the author is dead. The work is particularly interested in the relationship between Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men and what the narrator argues is Denis Johnson’s reimagining of that work in the short story “Emergency” (in Johnson’s Jesus’ Son). But in accumulating characters with disabilities as widely diverse as Darth Vader, Benjy of Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, and the TV sitcom Community’s Abed Nadir, Rawson movingly, and with wry humor, articulates the assumptions and clichés faced by persons with disabilities, all the while creating a new family with his unlikely gathering of “fuckheads.”

People with disabilities. --- People with disabilities in motion pictures. --- disability studies --- memoir --- Faulkner --- Steinbeck

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People with disabilities in motion pictures. --- People with disabilities --- People with disabilities --- Sociology of disability --- Civil rights --- History. --- History.

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Film exceptionnel, hors normes, " Freaks " (" La Monstrueuse Parade ", 1932) compte parmi les plus grandes réalisations du cinéma mondial. Homme de cirque, de " music-hall " et des tréteaux de foire avant de passer derrière la caméra, Tod Browning projette sur grand écran son amour du spectacle vivant en filmant l'histoire du nain Hans manipulé par la belle trapéziste Cleopatra, et en faisant appel à des personnes vraiment victimes de déformations physiques. Le cinéaste a puisé son sujet dans une nouvelle de Clarence Aaron "Tod" Robbins, publiée en 1923 sous le titre " Les Éperons " (" Spurs "), dont les éditions Rouge Profond proposent la première traduction en France. Rappelant que l'écrivain a déjà inspiré au réalisateur " Le Club des trois " (1925), Boris Henry procède à une comparaison entre le texte et le film, revenant sur les étapes d'écriture du long métrage, ses partis pris formels, le traitement qu'il réserve aux phénomènes - à l'origine de vives controverses au sein même de la M.G.M. Authentique miracle de production, Freaks compte parmi les pièces maîtresses de la filmographie de Tod Browning, qui venait d'adapter avec succès " Dracula ".

People with disabilities in motion pictures --- Film adaptations. --- Handicapés au cinéma --- Adaptations cinématographiques --- Browning, Tod, --- Freaks (Motion picture) --- Robbins, Tod --- Adaptations cinématographiques --- Freaks

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In this book, Shell, himself a victim of polio, offers an inspired analysis of the disease. Part memoir, part cultural criticism and history, part meditation on the meaning of disease, Shell's work combines the understanding of a medical researcher with the sensitivity of a literary critic. He deftly draws a detailed yet broad picture of the lived experience of a crippling disease as it makes it way into every facet of human existence.

Poliomyelitis --- People with disabilities in motion pictures. --- Culture in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Handicapped in motion pictures --- Anterior spinal paralysis --- Infantile paralysis --- Paralysis, Anterior spinal --- Paralysis, Infantile --- Polio --- Central nervous system --- Enterovirus diseases --- Myelitis --- Social aspects --- Patients --- Infections