Articles & Books

Books on Films & Disability
The Cinema of Isolation:  A history of physical disability in the movies.  Martin F. Norden   ISBN 0-8135-2104-1  
Framed: Interrogating Disability in the Media, Edited by Ann Pointon with Chris Davies   ISBN 0-85170-600-2  
Disability Drama in Television and Film.  Lauri E. Klobas  
Images of the disabled, disabling images.  A & Joe Gartner (Eds.)
The Creatures Time Forgot:  Photography and disability imagery.  David Hevey
Hollywood Speaks:  Deafness and the Film Entertainment Industry.  John S. Schuchman
Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring physical disability in American culture & literature:  Rosemarie Garland Thomson   ISBN 0-231-10517-7
Freak Show: Presenting human oddities for amusement & profit   Robert Bogdan  ISBN 0-226-06312-7
Body and Physical Difference, The: Discourses of disability  David T. Mitchell & Sharon L. Snyder  ISBN 0-472-06659-5
Anthropologist on Mars, An                Oliver Sacks    ISBN 0-330-34347-5
Seeing Voices                                    Oliver Sacks    ISBN 0-375-70407-8
 
These books were suggested by Kim:
The Motion Picture Prescription - Gary Solomon
Media Madness: Public Images of Mental Illness - Otto F. Wahl
The Celluloid Couch: An Annotated International Filmography of the Mental Health Professional in the Movies and TV From the Beginning to 1990 - Leslie Y. Rabkin
Media and Mental Distress - Greg Philo (ed)
Madness and Social Representations - Tim Powell
Psychiatry and the Cinema - Glen O. Gabbard.

Articles & Essays on Disability and the Media  
1. Short articles called "I Hate Tiny Tim"  http://www.mainstream-mag.com/tinytim.html or  http://www.mainstream-mag.com/1297tim.html
2. A short discussion by Phil Ivory : Disabilities in the Media: The Movies  http://www.ktv-I.com/   DEAD May 2003
3.  The First Century of Disability Portrayal in Film    http://soe.eastnet.ecu.edu/sped/articles-html DEAD May 2003 this link is dead but try searching using the article title.
4. SLOW DANCE: A Story of Stroke, Love and Disability by Bonnie Sherr Klein in collaboration with Persimmon Blackbridge: Knopf Canada, 1997 Reviewed by Lucia Dutton at http://www.ability.ns.ca/index.html  DEAD May 2003
this link is dead but try searching using the article title.
5.  Multiple Personality Disorder: Witchcraft Survives in the Twentieth Century
August Piper Jr.   http://www.csicop.org/si/9805/witch.html#author
"Since 1980, some psychotherapists have claimed that thousands of Americans are afflicted with multiple personality disorder. Believing such claims requires ignoring their many serious deficiencies. 
Any people, given over to the power of contagious passion, may be swept by desolation, and plunged into ruin."
-- Charles W. Upham, 1867 
6.   The Romanticized Visions of Alcoholism Film Festival by Jordan Hoffman
7.  See the article by Sarah Trencansky "Final Girls and Terrible Youth: Trangression in 1980s Slasher Horror"
You can find this article by searching "Sarah Trencansky" at www.findarticles.com
8.  Bruce Krajewski has kindly allowed me to host his unpublished article about the film "On Dangerous Ground (1951)"
9.  Are People with Disabilities Entertaining?

Interesting article on disabled people in films.
http://www6.rehacare.de/cipp/md_rehacare/custom/pub/content,lang,2/ticket,g_u_e_s_t/oid,3355
 
Further List of Books