{"product_id":"9781493086337","title":"Popcorn Disabilities: The Highs and Lows of Disabled Representation in the Movies","description":"Author: Lopez, Kristen\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781493086337\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 19 Mar 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 240\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou can learn a lot from the movies   about sex and relationships, about business, about history. Sure, there's a fair amount of fantasy, wish fulfillment, and glorious hair to exaggerate everything, but for better or for worse, films remain one of the most important ways that viewers around the world learn about other people and cultures. And almost since the dawn of the medium, movies have shaped the public's understanding of and assumptions about disability.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As a film critic and disabled person, Kristen Lopez speaks with particular authority on how disability is represented   and too often misrepresented   in movies. \u003ci\u003ePopcorn Disabilities \u003c\/i\u003eis her impassioned but nonetheless fun and engaging survey of how Hollywood has dealt with disability over the last century. As she reveals, even when they're not just narrative props to help out an able-bodied protagonist, disabled movie characters are overwhelmingly white, affluent, and conventionally attractive, obscuring the variety of disabilities and the experiences of those who deal with them. But she also explains where films have gotten it right and how the power of the medium can continue to be used to enlighten and educate in the future. From little-remembered gems like Tod Browning's \u003ci\u003eFreaks\u003c\/i\u003e   one of the earliest well-intentioned attempts to show disabled characters as complex, three-dimensional human beings   to contemporary films like \u003ci\u003eCoda, My Left Foot, A Different Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and many others, it challenges popular assumptions about disability while never losing sight of movies' unique power, influence, and potential as a tool for social good.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47839609979038,"sku":"UBD-9781493086337","price":49.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781493086337.jpg?v=1781075390","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781493086337","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}