2015 Annual Conference • Disability Studies • panel

Performing Disability in Theater and Film

This panel examines the different ways disability has been performed on stage and screen, and covers a wide variety of representations of disability, from Eddie Redmayne’s performance as Stephen Hawking to the dramatization of the Anna O. case, to the puppet horses used in War Horse.

Presentations

From Case Study to K-Pax: Dramatizing the Anna O. Case as a Narrative Form in Film

Presenters

Christopher James Petrus

The Lives and Deaths of Puppet Horses: Disability, Precarity, and Interspecies Intimacy in War Horse

Presenters

Haylie Swenson

Mind over Limp: The Representation and Policing of Deviant Speech Acts in David Marsh’s The Theory of Everything

Presenters

Emily Wilson

Session chairs

Meredith Guthrie