When Comedy and Intellectual Disability Collide: Who Says What Goes, and How Far, When Actors with Intellectual Disabilities Appear on Screen?

摘要: As part of a creative-practice PhD in Australia 2007, the author this paper embarked on conception and production comedy feature film starring two men with intellectual disabilities. Its purpose was to forge new model creative collaboration, which abandoned “us” “them” found wide audience for rich diverse voices people This uses self-reflection review primary secondary sources discuss intense debate that sparked by published objections work Australian academics. Issues raised were representation disability screen comedy; vulnerability, protection, independence, capacity when they are involved media productions; role community defining terms debate. The debates, though often divisive confrontational, ultimately strengthened enhanced finished work. lessons f...