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Physical Disability in Film
We examine how people with physical disabilities have been portrayed in movies and discuss whether actors playing disabled characters is the new blackface.
In “Quid Pro Quo,” opening this week, Nick Stahl plays a wheelchair-bound reporter who begins a journalistic investigation into a group of handicap wannabes who long for disabilities of their own. Intriguing look into an unexplored subculture, or recycling of film stereotypes about the disabled? It got us thinking, and so this week on the IFC News podcast we examine how people with physical disabilities have been portrayed in movies, from “Freaks” to “My Left Foot” to “Rory O’Shea Was Here,” and discuss whether actors playing disabled characters is the new blackface.
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Tags: Freaks, My Left Foot, physical disabilities, Quid Pro Quo, Rory O'Shea Was Here
