Journal article
Beautiful minds and unruly bodies: embodiment and academic identity in Still Alice and The Theory of Everything
Abstract
This article explores the representation of disability and academic identity in two award-winning films: Still Alice and The Theory of Everything. Drawing on scholarship about embodiment and the ‘normal professor body’, I demonstrate how the complex images of disabled academics in these films take up and replicate (to differing extents) dominant discourses of disembodied intellectualism that shape conceptions of the professoriate. As examples …
Authors
Marquis E
Journal
Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Vol. 39, No. 6, pp. 829–840
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Publication Date
November 2, 2018
DOI
10.1080/01596306.2017.1301881
ISSN
0159-6306