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Disability as visual shorthand: Theme and style in Australian cinema in the 1990s
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Disability as visual shorthand: Theme and style in Australian cinema in the 1990s

K. Ellis
Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine, Vol.152, pp.135-139
2007
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Abstract

Australian national cinema during the 1990s presented films that constructed disability within a personal tragedy model thereby excluding disability from Australian national identity. The individualization of disability is a national project, which encourages the continued subordination of disabled people.

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