Face of Our Fear

Face Of Our Fear is a richly conceived essay about the evolving image of disability Dwoskin a highly accomplished experimental filmmaker begins with the declaration that the historically distorted images of people with disabilities constitute a negation of selfhood He then traces this concerted effort through two thousand years of Western culture beginning with the Greek notion of the idealized body and its opposite the fabulous races Using contemporary films clips literary quotations performance and pictorial records Face Of Our Fear looks at the Courts infatuation with monsters during the Middle Ages the charity cripples of the Enlightenment the freakshows of the nineteenth century each a resort to oppressive stigmatization Steve Seid