Book list (unsorted)

Bogdan, R. (1987). The exhibition of humans with differences for amusement
and profit. Policy Studies Journal, 15, 120-126.

Bogdan, R. (1988). Freak show: Presenting human oddities for amusement
and profit

Bogdan, R., & Biklen, D. (1977). Handicapism.

Social Policy, 15, 537-550. Bower, E.M. (Ed.). (1980).

The handicapped in literature: A psychosocial perspective.

Ferguson, D.L. Ferguson, & S.J. Taylor (Eds.), Interpreting disability: A qualitative reader.

Klobas, L.E. (1988). Disability drama in television and film.

Lasch, C. (1988, October). The last freak show.

Margolis, H., & Shapiro, S. (1987). Countering negative img of disability
in classical literature.
English Journal, 76, 18-22. Margolis, H., Shapiro, A., & Anderson, P.M. (1990).

Reading, writing, and thinking about prejudice. Social Education, 54, 28-30.

Nelson, J.A. (1994). The disabled, the media, and the information age.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Safran, S.P. (2000). Using film to teach students about disabilities.

Teaching Exceptional Children, 32, 44-47.
Shapiro, A., Margolis, H., & Anderson, P.M. (1990).

The vocabulary of disability. The High School Journal, 73, 86-91.
Thomas, S., & Wolfensberger, W. (1982).

The importance of social imagery in interpreting societally devalued people to the public. Rehabilitation Literature, 43, 356-358. Tyler, L.(1990).

Psychological and Sociological Perspectives Bandura, A. (1977). Social learning theory.

Becker, H.S. (1963). Studies in the sociology of deviance.

Bogdan, R., & Taylor, S.(1988). Toward a sociology of acceptance: The other side of human deviance.

Bogdan, R., Biklen, D., Shapiro, A., & Spelkoman, D.(1982).
The disabled: Media's monsters.

Fiedler, L.A. (1982). Pity and fear: Images of the disabled in literature and
the popular arts.

Safran, S.P. (1998). The first century of disability portrayal in film: An
analysis of the literature. The Journal of Special Education, 31, 467-479.

Wahl, O.F. (1992). Mass media img of mental illness:

From a German site http://www.fachinformation-filmwissenschaft.de/stichwort/b/behindert.html
The site is in English.

Claude J.Smith Jr.: "Finding a Warm Place for Someone We Know: The Cultural Appeal of Recent Mental Patient and Asylum Films." In: Journal of Popular Film & TV 27:1 (1999), pp.40-46
Anthony Enns and Christopher R. Smit (Ed.): Screening Disability. Essays on Cinema and Disability. Lanham 2001
Robin Larsen and Beth A. Haller: "Public Reception of Real Disability: The Case of Freaks." In: Journal of Popular Film & TV 29:4 (2001-02), pp.164-173
Silke Bartmann: Der behinderte Mensch im Spielfilm. Eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit Mustern, Legitimationen, Auswirkungen von und dem Umgang mit Darstellungsweisen von behinderten Menschen in Spielfilmen. Münster 2003
Stefan Heiner u. Enzo Gruber (Hg.): Bildstörungen. Kranke und Behinderte im Spielfilm. Frankfurt/M 2003
Petra Kuppers: "Encountering Paralysis. Disability, Trauma and Narrative." In: E.A.Kaplan and B.Wang (Ed.): Trauma and Cinema, Hongkong 2004