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Critical Readings in Interdisciplinary Disability Studies“Once Big Oil, Always Big Oil”: Disability and Sustainability in Pixar’s Cars 2

Critical Readings in Interdisciplinary Disability Studies: “Once Big Oil, Always Big Oil”:... [The Pixar universe, built on 1721 feature-length films across 2124 years and ever-expanding, is neither acclaimed nor notorious for its representations of disability. Indeed, until 2016, none of its feature-length offerings besides Finding Nemo attracted much attention from disability scholars or advocates, and commentary on Nemo, while nearly always positive, was fairly superficial, lauding Nemo’s “lucky fin” without engaging deeply with the issues central to Disability Studies. With 2016’s sequel Finding Dory, the Nemo franchise secured its status as the face of disability in Pixar, and most viewers seem comforted by its being an affirming face. But Pixar’s relationship to disability is far more complex, narratively and visually, than it may at first appear, and its many more problematic representations—of compulsory able-bodiedness, stigma, prosthetic appropriations of disabled bodies, and the conflation of disability with other identities coded as inferior—are certainly worth our notice. This essay explores how the convoluted plot of Cars 2 yokes the themes of disability, masculinity, and environmental consciousness to champion a dangerous nostalgia for rigidly normative and defensively national identity.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Critical Readings in Interdisciplinary Disability Studies“Once Big Oil, Always Big Oil”: Disability and Sustainability in Pixar’s Cars 2

Part of the Critical Studies of Education Book Series (volume 12)
Editors: Ware, Linda
Wooden, Shannon R.
Critical Readings in Interdisciplinary Disability Studies — Mar 14, 2020
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-35307-0
Pages
107 –118
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-35309-4_9
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Abstract

[The Pixar universe, built on 1721 feature-length films across 2124 years and ever-expanding, is neither acclaimed nor notorious for its representations of disability. Indeed, until 2016, none of its feature-length offerings besides Finding Nemo attracted much attention from disability scholars or advocates, and commentary on Nemo, while nearly always positive, was fairly superficial, lauding Nemo’s “lucky fin” without engaging deeply with the issues central to Disability Studies. With 2016’s sequel Finding Dory, the Nemo franchise secured its status as the face of disability in Pixar, and most viewers seem comforted by its being an affirming face. But Pixar’s relationship to disability is far more complex, narratively and visually, than it may at first appear, and its many more problematic representations—of compulsory able-bodiedness, stigma, prosthetic appropriations of disabled bodies, and the conflation of disability with other identities coded as inferior—are certainly worth our notice. This essay explores how the convoluted plot of Cars 2 yokes the themes of disability, masculinity, and environmental consciousness to champion a dangerous nostalgia for rigidly normative and defensively national identity.]

Published: Mar 14, 2020

Keywords: Heteronormativity; Popular films; Capitalist economy; Non-normative identity; STIGMA Stigma

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