{"title":"The General Audience Talks Back","authors":"Slava Greenberg","doi":"10.1525/fq.2022.76.2.31","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this essay, Slava Greenberg discusses the documentary Code of the Freaks (2020), in which thirteen disabled activists, artists, and scholars respond to hundreds of movie clips stereotypically portraying disability. He situates the film in relation to other “Hollywood shaming” documentaries that construct “Hollywood” as a collective archive to historicize the othering of their communities. Greenberg suggests that Code of the Freaks marks a shift in the evolution of this subgenre from educating the general audience to addressing their own community members as desired, even privileged, spectators.","PeriodicalId":45540,"journal":{"name":"FILM QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"FILM QUARTERLY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2022.76.2.31","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In this essay, Slava Greenberg discusses the documentary Code of the Freaks (2020), in which thirteen disabled activists, artists, and scholars respond to hundreds of movie clips stereotypically portraying disability. He situates the film in relation to other “Hollywood shaming” documentaries that construct “Hollywood” as a collective archive to historicize the othering of their communities. Greenberg suggests that Code of the Freaks marks a shift in the evolution of this subgenre from educating the general audience to addressing their own community members as desired, even privileged, spectators.
在这篇文章中,斯拉瓦·格林伯格讨论了纪录片《怪胎密码》(2020),在这部纪录片中,13位残疾人活动家、艺术家和学者对数百个刻板描绘残疾人的电影片段做出了回应。他将这部电影与其他“好莱坞羞辱”纪录片联系起来,这些纪录片将“好莱坞”构建为一个集体档案,将他们社区的他者历史化。Greenberg认为,《Code of the Freaks》标志着这一亚类型游戏的发展发生了转变,即从教育普通用户转变为将自己的社区成员当成自己想要的,甚至是特权的观众。
期刊介绍:
Film Quarterly has been publishing substantial, peer-reviewed writing on motion pictures since 1958, earning a reputation as the most authoritative academic film journal in the United States. Its wide array of topics, perspectives, and approaches appeals to film scholars and film buffs alike. If you love all types of movies and are eager to encounter new ways of thinking about them, then Film Quarterly is the journal for you! Scholarly analyses of international cinemas, current blockbusters and Hollywood classics, documentaries, animation, and independent, avant-garde, and experimental film and video fill the pages of the journal.