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Citation:Wilde, A and Millett, S (2018) Watching ‘Freaks’ – young people negotiating what it is to be human.In: Leeds Beckett Media Research Festival, 19 January 2018 - 19 January 2018, Rose Bowl, LeedsBeckett University.
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Watching ‘Freaks’ – young people negotiating what it is to be human
Alison Wilde, Leeds Beckett University, January 2018
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The StudyThe film and its reception since 1932
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Stereotypes, ‘cripples’ practitioners and academics
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Moving from ideas of bad and good - considering the audience
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Focus groups
Three schools
Six-seven young people
Met over four months
Three films
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The films
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The Simpsons Season 1One of us - (Homer as the voice of reason, and shock treatment)
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Big Bang theory - one of usOne of us (geeks)
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South Park - one of usSouth Park gooble gobble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgKhEmxgSMs
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I Robot- One of us (meets I’m Spartacus)I Robot, 2004
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Christine and the Queens’ Héloïse Letissier
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‘behave communally as a “normal” character
in the way that any victim of treatment or
abuse might when confronted with an
outsider who perpetrates such abuse,
especially when the abuse is “justified” by a
lack of respect for the characters who shared
“othered” bodies’
(Chivers,2001, 63)
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‘imbues such bodies with understandable
motivation, suggesting a continuum of body
types rather than an ideal and a lack’,
‘no choice’ but to become ‘one of us’
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Gill, not helping Nemo, for his own good…
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Freaks and Spectacle• Hilton sisters from Freaks (and the Bunker Brothers
• (b. 1811), both ‘news’ in the Daily Mail, in 2014 and 2015)
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Imperator Furiosa, in Mad Max – Fury Road
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Thank you for listening!