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(Im)Possible Lives and Love: Disability and Crip Temporality in Swedish Cinema
Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of historical, philosophical and religious studies. (DISLIFE)
Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies. (DISLIFE)
2020 (English)In: Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, ISSN 1501-7419, E-ISSN 1745-3011, Vol. 22, no 1, p. 80-87Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

As previous research has shown, people with disabilities often have restricted access to adulthood and its corresponding life events (including sexuality, partnership and parenthood), both in society and in popular cultural representations. This article analyzes five contemporary Swedish fiction films with protagonists with disabilities in order to consider how and in what ways they depict romantic relationships, sexuality, and reproduction as manifestations of adulthood in normative time and life course. The aim is to analyze if ableist norms related to time, adulthood, and sexuality is confirmed or challenged in these films. Four of the five films confirmed the ableist norm and used normalizing strategies to assimilate the disability position into normative life course and timeline. One of the films challenged the ableist implications of the normative timeline thus providing the possibility of crip time. Given media representations’ powerful dissemination of cultural values it is of great importance to scrutinize its underlying cultural values.

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Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2020. Vol. 22, no 1, p. 80-87
Keywords [en]
crip temporality, ableism, adulthood, Swedish cinema, love, sexuality
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Studies on Film Media Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-169569DOI: 10.16993/sjdr.629ISI: 000605454600009Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85081539298OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-169569DiVA, id: diva2:1422099
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Liveable disabilities: Life courses and opportunity structures across time, Europeiska unionen – Horizon 2020
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EU, Horizon 2020, 647125Available from: 2020-04-07 Created: 2020-04-07 Last updated: 2023-03-24Bibliographically approved

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