9. Autism in Translation (original) (raw)

New York University Press eBooks, 2020

Abstract

<p>Tasha Oren conducts close readings of the television documentaries <italic>Stairway to Heaven</italic> (Errol Morris, Bravo, 2000) and <italic>The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow</italic> (Emma Sutten, BBC, 2006) and the fictionalized biopic <italic>Temple Grandin</italic> (Mick Jackson, HBO, 2010). These representations of Temple Grandin—prolific author, professor of animal science at Colorado University, and famous Autist—are used to explain shifts in popular understandings of autism in the 21st century. This chapter illustrates how close attention to film style and cultural representations can be used to understand larger social shifts in the meanings of disability.</p>

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