O nowych sposobach zarządzania fizyczną różnicą na ekranie: autotematyzm i intencja zwrotna wobec reprezentacji „anormalnego” ciała w filmie
On new modes of managing physical difference on screen: autothematism and reflexivity in the context of representation of “abnormal” bodies in film

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Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses particular modes of audiovisual self-consciousness in autothematic and highly (self )reflexive films, equipped with “empowered” devices of narration that question popular conventions of portraying physical otherness. Living in Oblivion (1995), Storytelling (2001), Jeremy the Dud (2017), and Chained for Life (2018) are analysed in contexts of lowering narrative illusion methods of managing “troublesome bodies” on screen, as well as the long tradition of “disabling” portrayals of visible dissimilarities (e.g. little person as oneiric figure, inspiring “supercrip” stereotype).

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