Tiny Tim on the big screen. The representation of disability in three adaptations of A Chistmas Carol in the post-World War II period
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Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, film adaptation, disability, affect studiesAbstract
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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