Autism in Film and Television

Autism in Film and Television

On the Island

Palmer, R. Barton; Pomerance, Murray

University of Texas Press

03/2025

336

Mole

9781477324929

15 a 20 dias

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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 Juarez: 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
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autism; autism and the media; autism and American culture; autism and American media; neurodiversity; disability; autism spectrum disorder; autism spectrum; film; television studies; film studies