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Disability: Disable the

Label

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???????1.What dramas can you think of that have disabled people in them?

2.What do you think of when you think of diasbility?

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Facts About the Disabled

• There are 770,00 disabled children under the age of 16 in the UK. That equates to 1 child in 20.

• Nearly one in five people of working age (7 million, or 18.6%) in Great Britain have a disability.

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Disability in TV DramasStudents to take notes on blog: Title ‘Disability in TV Dramas’

• In his life 1991 study, Paul Hunt identified 10 stereotypes that the media use to portray disabled people:

• The disabled person as pitiable or pathetic• An object of curiosity or violence• Sinister or evil• The super cripple• As atmosphere• Laughable• His/her own worst enemy• As a burden• As Non-sexual• Being unable to participate in daily life

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The Inbetweeners• Why is this clip funny? • How is the disabled girl being

framed; ‘how’ is she being represented?

• Are we meant to be laughing at the disabled person?

• Are they the ‘butt’ of the joke?• How do you think disabled

people respond to this? • The big word for disability

representation is STEREOTTYPE! • Are we as society being cultivated

to think that we should pity disability?

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Activity

View and discuss as a classWrite notes and an analysis discussing the

technical aspects that are creating the representations

camera angle, shot, movement and positionEditingSoundmise en scene

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Viewing for Disability

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Viewing of Past Exam Extract

Be prepared to feedback your observations on the technical language used to represent disability

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A Final Thought


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