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Call No: 747.77(73) AUT
Author: Pomerance, Murray; Palmer, R. Barton
Edition: 2022
Place: Austin
Publisher: University of Texas Press
PubDate: April 2022
PhysDes: 324 pages ; 23.5 cm
Subject: PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN FILMS; STAR TREK - THE NEXT GENERATION [TV] (US, 1987-1994); LIFE, ANIMATED (FR/US, Roger Ross Williams, 2016); RAIN MAN (US, Barry Levinson, 1988); GOOD DOCTOR, THE [TV] ( US, 2017 - ); BIG SHORT, THE (US, Adam McKay, 2015); STRANGER THINGS [TV] (US, 2016); SOCIAL NETWORK, THE (US, David Fincher, 2010); NIGHTCRAWLER (US, Dan Gilroy, 2014); ACCOUNTANT, THE (US, Gavin O'Connor, 2016); BEING THERE (US, Hal Ashby, 1979); PHANTOM THREAD (US, Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017); DAVID AND LISA (US, Frank Perry, 1962); MARY POPPINS (US, Robert Stevenson, 1964)
Summary: Global awareness of autism has skyrocketed since the 1980s, and popular culture has caught on, with film and television producers developing ever more material featuring autistic characters. Autism in Film and Television brings together more than a dozen essays on depictions of autism, exploring how autistic characters are signified in media and how the reception of these characters informs societal understandings of autism. Editors Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer have assembled a pioneering examination of autism’s portrayal in film and television. Contributors consider the various means by which autism has been expressed in films such as Phantom Thread, Mercury Rising, and Life Animated and in television and streaming programs including Atypical, Stranger Things, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Community. Across media, the figure of the brilliant, accomplished, and “quirky” autist has proven especially appealing. Film and television have thus staked out a progressive position on neurodiversity by insisting on screen time for autism but have done so while frequently ignoring the true diversity of autistic experience. As a result, this volume is a welcome celebration of nonjudgmental approaches to disability, albeit one that is still freighted with stereotypes and elisions. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781477324912
Contents: -- -- Preface: Two Meditations: Who Am I? (Murray Pomerance) Before Neurodiversity (R. Barton Palmer) -- 1. Autistic Android? The Curious Instance of Star Trek’s Data (Ina Rae Hark) -- 2. Life, Animated: Adapting a Book about a Hero with Autism (Rebecca Bell-Metereau) -- 3. Where Is the Autism in Rain Man? (Daniel Sacco ) -- 4. The Good Doctor: Images of Autism and Augmented Intelligence (Burke Hilsabeck) -- 5. Oddity and Catastrophe in The Big Short (Jason Jacobs) -- 6. Diagnosing the Detective: Sherlock Holmes and Autism in Contemporary Television (Christina Wilkins) -- 7. She’s So Unusual: The Autist in Stranger Things (Brenda Austin-Smith) -- 8. Autism, Performance, and Sociality: Isolated Attention in The Social Network (Elliott Logan) -- 9. Hidden Worlds of Female Autism (Daniel Varndell) -- 10. Eye Contact in Juárez: Borderline Empathy and the Autistic Detective (Douglas McFarland) -- 11. The Creative Evolution and Reception of Netflix’s Atypical (Christine Becker) -- 12. Community’s Human Laugh Track: Neurodiversity in a Metamodern Sitcom (Joshua Schulze) -- 13. Portrait of the Autist as a Young Man (Fincina Hopgood) -- 14. Due Diligence: Exploring ASD in Nightcrawler and The Accountant (Dominic Lennard) -- 15. Mind the Gap: Autistic Viewpoint in Film (Alex Clayton) -- 16. Performative Restraint and the Challenges of Empathy in Being There and Phantom Thread (Matthew Cipa) -- 17. “A Spoonful of Sugar”: Watching Movies Autistically (Mark Osteen) -- 18. David and Lisa: The Healing Power of the Group (R. Barton Palmer) -- 19. Jesse: Torture That Autist (Murray Pomerance) -- Works Cited and Consulted -- Photo Captions and Credits -- Contributors -- Index.

Call No: DIGITAL FILE
Author: Randolph, Charles; McKay, Adam; Lewis,Michael
PhysDes: 171 leaves
Subject: BIG SHORT, THE (US, Adam McKay, 2015)
Notes: Unpublished script
Donation: AFI/AACTA

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: BIG SHORT, THE (US, Adam McKay, 2015)

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; BIG SHORT, THE (US, Adam McKay, 2015)
Author: -
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: McKAY, ADAM; BIG SHORT, THE (US, Adam McKay, 2015)
Summary: Interview with Adam McKay, the director of the film THE BIG SHORT. He discusses the reasons why he wanted to make a film about the world of high finance

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; BIG SHORT, THE (US, Adam McKay, 2015)
Author: Stratton, David
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: BIG SHORT, THE (US, Adam McKay, 2015)
Summary: Review of the film THE BIG SHORT
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; BIG SHORT, THE (US, Adam McKay, 2015)
Author: Johnson, Neala
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: CARELL, STEVE; BIG SHORT, THE (US, Adam McKay, 2015)
Summary: Interview with Steve Carell about his role in the new film THE BIG SHORT, as well as discussing his career

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; BIG SHORT, THE (US, Adam McKay, 2015)
Author: Wilson, Jake
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: BIG SHORT, THE (US, Adam McKay, 2015)
Summary: Review of the film THE BIG SHORT
Notes: same article in Canberra Times. 16/01/2016. Section: Panorama. p. 13. Article Title: Comic premise exposes financial industry
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars