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Blinding the Screen: Visualizing Disability in Le scaphandre et le papillon
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 46, Number 3, September 2013
- pp. 109-124
- 10.1353/mos.2013.0027
- Article
- Additional Information
This essay examines how the first-person perspective employed in Julian Schnabel’s Le scaphandre et le papillon draws on previous cinematic traditions to configure blindness for a sighted audience. Engaging with common metaphors of disability, the essay explores whether this film’s cinematic representation of blindness opens new possibilities for conceptualizing visual impairment.