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The Elephant Man (David Lynch, EMI Films, 1980): an analysis from a disabled perspective
- Author:
- DARKE Paul Anthony
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 9(3), 1994, pp.327-342.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Uses Foucault's ideas on normalisation and medicalisation to discuss David Lynch's 'The Elephant Man' as a movie that dehumanises and objectifies its subject rather than one that represents abnormality/disability as human or valid in itself, as it is often claimed for the film.