A Conversation About Film, Activism and Social Media with Disability Activist/Filmmaker Dominick Evans

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Raphael Raphael
Lecturer, University of Hawaii

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disability studies, film, social media, queer studies

Abstract

An informal interview with Disability Activist/Filmmaker Dominick Evans.  Topics include film and media representation of people with disability and the use of social media in activism.
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Published
June 1, 2018

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Issue
Vol. 14 No. 2 (2018): The Crip, The Fat and The Ugly in an Age of Austerity: Resistance, Reclamation and Affirmation, Volume 14, Issue 2
Section
Creative Works

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Author Biography

Raphael Raphael, Lecturer, University of Hawaii

Raphael is a film and media scholar focusing on the relationship of the body and media.  His most recent work is Transnational Horror Cinema: Bodies of Excess and the Global Grotesque (with Sophia Siddique). Other writing includes contributions to Modern Language Association's Teaching Film (2012) and Transnational Stardom: International Celebrity in Film and Popular Culture (with Russell Meeuf) (2013).  Dr. Raphael lectures at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His scholarship is also informed by his own practice as transmedia artist. He tweets @raphaelspeak.