This document discusses disability representation in television dramas. It notes that nearly 1 in 5 people in the UK have a disability. It then lists 10 common stereotypes that media uses to portray disabled people, such as portraying them as pitiable, curious, sinister, or a burden. The document instructs students to analyze a clip from "The Inbetweeners" where a disabled girl is represented. Students are asked whether the clip means to laugh at the disabled person and how disabled people may respond. It encourages analyzing the technical aspects like camera angles, editing, and sound that create representations. It concludes by saying students should be prepared to discuss their observations on the technical language used to portray disability.

1. Disability: Disable
the Label

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1. What dramas can you think of that have disabled people in them?
2. What do you think of when you think of diasbility?

3. Facts About the Disabled
• There are 770,00
disabled children under
the age of 16 in the UK.
That equates to 1 child
in 20.
• Nearly one in five
people of working age
(7 million, or 18.6%) in
Great Britain have a
disability.

4. Disability in TV Dramas
Students to take notes on blog:
Title ‘Disability in TV Dramas’
• In his life 1991 study, Paul Hunt identified 10 stereotypes that the media
use to portray disabled people:
• The disabled person as pitiable or pathetic
• An object of curiosity or violence
• Sinister or evil
• The super cripple
• As atmosphere
• Laughable
• His/her own worst enemy
• As a burden
• As Non-sexual
• Being unable to participate in daily life

5. The Inbetweeners
• Why is this clip funny?
• How is the disabled girl being
framed; ‘how’ is she being
represented?
• Are we meant to be laughing at
the disabled person?
• Are they the ‘butt’ of the joke?
• How do you think disabled people
respond to this?
• The big word for disability
representation is STEREOTTYPE!
• Are we as society being cultivated
to think that we should pity
disability?

6. Activity
View and discuss as a class
Write notes and an analysis discussing the
technical aspects that are creating the
representations
camera angle, shot, movement and position
Editing
Sound
mise en scene

7. Viewing for Disability

8. Viewing of Past Exam Extract
Be prepared to feedback your observations on the technical language
used to represent disability

9. A Final Thought