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Hollywood Speaks
Absorbing, scholarly study of the portrayal in nearly 200 movies and TV episodes of the least visible disabled group in American society. Includes the first filmography (annotated) of films designed for general audiences that deal with deafness or include a deaf character in a mator or pivotal role. For all film study collections. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Images of an Invisible Disability
This book is based on Johnson's reviews of approximately 200 films, made-for-TV movies, TV episodes, or TV series having a character with a hearing disability. Because hearing disability has no external physical manifestation, the challenge to directors and screen writers is to make this invisible disability visible. To that end, film makers have resorted to physical and behavioral stereotypes of deaf and hard-of-hearing characters. Johnson evaluates these cliches according to the actual lived experience of hearing disability, the accessibility of the show to hearing-disabled audiences, and the changes in these factors over the nine decades covered in her filmography.
