PT Journal
AU Kucera, P
TI People with hearing impairment in films
SO Journal of Exceptional People
PY 2013
BP 79
EP 94
VL 2
IS 1
DE deaf; sign language; lip reading; lay and professional interpreters; subtitles; spoken language of the deaf
AB The topic of deaf people and their world is presented quite often both on TV and in films. When watching movies and TV series featuring deaf people the question arises about the way in which communication of people with hearing impairment is portrayed. What is the motivation of filmmakers when choosing a specific form of communication? There are films featuring the deaf where the hearing audience's beliefs in stereotypes and untrue myths about the deaf tend to be reinforced. This article presents several films and series of Czech and foreign origin which - in one way or another - deal with the topic of hearing impairment.
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