Disability
These pacific islands were used as US nuclear testing sites.
What are the Marshall Islands?
The main character in A Beautiful Mind suffers from this disorder.
What is Schizophrenia?
Max told Carla to imagine her baby was this object in their crash reenactment.
What is the tool box?
These are the three temporal planes of the film.
What is Spider’s childhood, his time in an asylum, and his time at the half-way-house?
This gender group is more likely to suffer from Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
What are women?
This week 10 reading highlights the importance of a history of disability issues and the political implications for omitting this history.
What is Karen Hirsch’s article, “Culture and Disability: The Role of Oral History”?
Nash’s character in the movie realizes his visions aren’t real after concluding this fact about the young girl.
What is the fact that she does not age?
This is one filmic principle used by Weir to convey imagery of planes.
What are high angle shots, liminal noise of a plane’s interior, small spaces with long rows, etc.?
This casting technique was used to convey a sense of confusion in the identity of characters Spider interacted with at the half-way-house.
What is casting Miranda Richardson in several different roles?
This is a strong irrational fear of a situation or object.
What is a phobia?
According to Margaret Price, these increase access and shape methodology (rather than avoiding uncomfortable conversations).
What are trigger warnings?
The script for A Beautiful Mind was primarily based on what source?
An unauthorized biography about John Nash.
In Fearless, this main character’s experience of PTSD is characterized by more negative than positive symptoms.
Who is Carla?
These recurring visual metaphors converge in the scene where Spider returns a shard of broken glass to an employee of the sanitarium.
What are webs and puzzles?
Fear conditioning depends on this brain region.
What is the amygdala?
This critical framework of disability calls for accountability of powerful countries that export disability.
What is the Decolonization of disability? (Meekosha, 2011)
The main character of the film is responsible for developing this economic theory.
What is Game Theory?
This event in Max’s childhood characterized his spiritual outlook.
What is the sudden death of his father?
In this scene, Cronenberg establishes the rhythm of the film and the main character.
What is the opening train station scene?
This percentage of people have experienced symptoms of anxiety in the past two weeks.
What is 15%?
This concept refers to the transfer, or passing down, of harmful mental health outcomes from historic hardship in families.
What is intergenerational trauma?
In the original script, this scene was placed before the opening scene in the classroom where a professor gives a speech.
What is the outdoor reception scene?
Max said this line to his wife Laura just before he flinched at the doorbell at the end of the movie.
What is, “I want you to save me”?
Spider smashes this object after considering upsetting events in his past.
What is the puzzle?
These are three ways to treat anxiety disorders.
What is psychotherapy, medication, and self-help?