Tiny Tim on the big screen. The representation of disability in three adaptations of A Chistmas Carol in the post-World War II period
This paper focuses on the character of Tiny Tim in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol to examine how he was represented in three films made in the postwar period: the British Scrooge (1951), the Spanish Leyenda de Navidad (1947) and the Italian Non è mai troppo tardi (1953). Adopting the double per...
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Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Lenguas (CIFAL), Facultad de Lenguas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Avenida Enrique Barros s/n, Ciudad Universitaria. Córdoba, Argentina. Correo electrónico: revistacylc@lenguas.unc.edu.ar
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/CultyLit/article/view/43908 |
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| Sumario: | This paper focuses on the character of Tiny Tim in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol to examine how he was represented in three films made in the postwar period: the British Scrooge (1951), the Spanish Leyenda de Navidad (1947) and the Italian Non è mai troppo tardi (1953). Adopting the double perspective of disability studies (to consider the representation of infirmity) and affect studies (to assess the interaction between the characters, or “in-between-ness”), the analysis aims to throw light on the disability stereotypes which typically emerge in film adaptations of the novel. |
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