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Vital signs : crip culture talks back

Documentary

Directed by: David Mitchell, Sharon Snyder

Overview

"A documentary about a national disability arts community that explores disability as the experience of a politically disenfranchised constitutency ... Consists of interviews and clips of performance pieces from a variety of artistic formats including: performance art, fiction, poetry, stand-up comedy, drama, personal anecdotes and scholarly research ... Pursues a definition of [a culture of disability] through questions of architectural inaccessibility, political activism, mainstream representations of disability in literature, film, art and television, and in a narrative of shared struggle to gain access to influential cultural institutions."--Guide sheet

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