Sociology of cinema. Functional diversity in classic films

Abstract

The current study intends to explore the collective ideals that has been projected on disability in the classic cinema of the first two-thirds of the of the twentieth century. Using a phenomenological approach based on the documentary analysis of scripts and frames of ten films of this time, in which functional diversity plays a relevant plot role. The results reveal certain stereotypes that show a moral confrontation regarding the evil/evil dichotomy, as well as negative-stigmatizing values around the limitation, a reality resolved through figurative incarnations that fall into the tearful, while subscribing to a rehabilitative coping model that places the solution to the difference in healing/rehabilitation. The characters are placed in plot contexts easily assimilated to those of Norden, insinuating some sketches of what has come to be known since postmodernism as the social model of disability.