Bodies in Water: Disability Cinemas and Creatures of the Sea

Abstract Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone (France, 2012) and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water (US, 2017) tell, in very different ways, a familiar story: a disabled, female protagonist is rehabilitated by romance, restored in her role as the object of heterosexual desire. Stephanie, i...

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Published in:Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Main Author: Ben Ayoun, Emma
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Duke University Press 2022
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10013646
https://read.dukeupress.edu/camera-obscura/article-pdf/37/3%20(111)/115/1805495/115benayoun.pdf