Disability and Its Intersection with Race and Class in Arthur Hiller’s Movie See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
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2019-09
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Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou
Abstract
This dissertation deals with disability and its intersection with race and class in Arthur
Hiller’s movie See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989). It is, therefore, about the disability, class
and race minorities. To accomplish our study, we relied on Sally Chivers and Nicole
Marcotic’s introduction to their edited book entitled Problem Body: Projecting Disability in
Film as a theoretical basis for our work where they highlight how disability is portrayed in
films. We have also relied on some borrowed ideas from the entire book especially from its
two chapters entitled “Body Genres: An anatomy of Disability in Film” and “No Life
Anyway: Pathologizing Disability in Film”, Kimberlee Crenshaw’s notion of intersectionality
introduced in her paper “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist
Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics” and Tobin
Siebers’s “Disability and the Theory of Complex Embodiment—For Identity Politics in a
New Register”. We have studied three major ideas. First, we studied how the disabled are
associated with “Otherness” and marginalized as a minority group in See No Evil, Hear No
Evil. This was highlighted by the two characters David Lyons and Wallas Kerew as they both
have disabilities. Second, we studied the manner the two characters attempt to
“demarginalize” and integrate themselves into society. Third, we focused on the analysis of
the representation of disability’s intersectionwith race and class in the movie and how these
three issues interact in the case of the two main characters. The movie sheds light on the
shared conditions that people with disabilities and those belonging toa specific ethnic group
or social class live in as they are excluded from society.
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30cm ; 54p.
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Disability, race, class, intersectionality, Arthur Hiller.
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Literature and Civilization