We Can Do Better: The Significance of Accurate Disabled Character Representation in Animation [Character Locomotion - Academic Writing Assignment - Blog Post 3]
We Can Do Better The Significance of Accurate Disabled Character Representation in Animation The depiction of disabled characters in media is increasing (Aspler, Harding and Cascio, 2022), however, recent studies shows that limited progress has been made to positively represent disabled characters on screen (Holcomb and Latham-Mintus, 2022). Furthermore, representation of characters often falls into harmful stereotypes (BBC The Social, 2019) and fail to recognise the range of diversity within the disabled community (Worrell, 2018; Aspler, Harding and Cascio, 2022). The term ‘disabled people’ (DP) will be used throughout this study to champion the social model of disability (Cheu, J. (2013), a perspective highlighting that people are disabled by the able-bodied centric societal constructs (Young, 2014). This research analyses the positive and negative depictions of physically and cognitively disabled characters in Finding Nemo (2003) and Finding Dory (2016) to highlight the impact of ...
