Image by WBUR via FlickrI think I've got a topic, but I have to come up with a research question, and I'm having trouble finding the words. I saw Dr. Toffee during her office hours on Thursday, and we talked about movies. It turns out that she is interested in disability in movies. After hearing her talk about it for a while, I got interested too, and she suggested a few that I might want to think about. This may sound strange, but I think I'm going to look at superhero movies, starting with The Fantastic Four and the X-Men films. They both deal with people who are physically different from "normal" people, and I can already see that they have some of the issues Dr. Toffee mentioned.My research is not going to be about the films as much as it is going to be about what they call "disability studies," which is the academic field that covers this kind of thing. She gave me a couple of book titles to look for, so I've got a start for that.
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