[Commlist] Disability Film Cultures – Call for Book Chapters

Disability Film Cultures – Call for Book Chapters

Edited by MaoHui Deng and Fraser Elliott



We are pleased to share this Call for Book Chapters for an upcoming 
edited collection on Disability Film Cultures. This call invites 
contributions across a broad understanding of disability and film 
cultures, and we are interested in the ways these two critical social 
concepts might intersect, overlap and/or diverge. In this collection, 
disability is understood through a social model, as that which is 
produced and performed by disabling surrounds, which might include – but 
not limited to – questions of accessibility, capitalism and market 
relations, and coloniality and decoloniality. We are eager to collect 
international and pluriversal perspectives on the various ways film and 
disability cultures discursively and materially intersect in the 
extra-film areas of production, distribution, exhibition, and reception.


We are seeking a combination of scholarly, industry and activist texts 
that might include critical analyses of disability film cultures, 
reflections on practice, and operational manifestos. Chapters will be 
7,000 – 8,000 words, though shorter chapters will be accepted for 
manifestos and similar material. We proactively encourage contributions 
that are authored by and co-authored with people with lived experiences 
of disability. The book’s target readership would be for a general audience.


We welcome chapters exploring, but not limited to, the following themes:

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    Disability film cultures and value

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    Disability and useful cinema

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    Film exhibition and accessibility

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    Approaches to disability in non-theatrical exhibition spaces

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    Disability as a minoritised identity in film cultures

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    The experience of disabled creatives in film and moving image 
production

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    Disability initiatives in film cultures

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    Labour and disability in film cultures

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    Envisioning a “disability film culture” beyond accessibility

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    Decolonial and pluriversal understandings of disability film cultures

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    Reflections on practice in disability film cultures

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    Analysis of film cultures through a disability framework


Please send your abstract of no more than 300 words, and a biography of 
no more than 200 words, to MaoHui Deng ((maohui.deng /at/ manchester.ac.uk)) 
and Fraser Elliott ((fraser.w.elliott /at/ gmail.com)) by Friday, 11 December 
2026. Peter Lang has expressed interest in working with the editors on 
this collected edition as part of their Disability, Media, Culture series.
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