Disabling Imagery

This British Film Institute and Disability Equality in Education Collaboration is available on the web: http://www.bfi.org.uk/disablingimagery

This website provides information on the history of disability in movies. Designed as a teaching aid the approach is from Disability Studies approach. Note the Introduction and Ways of thinking about disability.

The resource aims to:

Examine critically how commercial, Western - mostly Hollywood cinema, has portrayed disabled people.

Develop some ways of thinking about disabled people from a human rights based approach as part of school's wider approach to equality.

Looks at ways disabled film-makers and their allies have represented disability in non commercial films.