Disfigured Faces, “Accursed Ugliness”, and Hollywood
Paddy Adamson on Hollywood's obsession with disfigured faces, and the negative impact such representations have on understandings of disfigurement.
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‘Like Changing a Windshield on a Car’ – Transplantation and The Eye (2008)
This piece on transplantation and The Eye (2008) is the second blog in our series on Halloween, Horror Films, transplantation and the face. In this installment, Lauren Stephenson (York St John) explores the tensions between science and the body, and matters of the soul and the self.
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Silence, surgery and strangeness: face transplant and the film Eyes without a Face/Les yeux sans visage (1960)
Written by Sara Wasson, this blog explores the 1960 French-language horror film Les yeux sans visage or Eyes Without a Face
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Transplantation narratives on screen: a Halloween blog series
This October, we're countering the casual exploitation of horror narratives around appearance and the limits of the body, reflecting on transplantation narratives on film with a guest blog series.
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Diminishing their Voices: Face Transplants, Patients, and Social Media
Diminishing their Voices: Face Transplants, Patients, and Social Media A video showing a woman inside a spider monkey enclosure at...
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Drag Face: exploring my identity through masculine performance
Image credit: Stephen Allwright Blog written by Isabel Adomakoh Young As a young woman in the final years of her...
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Portrait of an Angry Man – or not?
Part of our Emotions and Ethics series, ‘Portrait of an Angry Man’ is written by Juliet Roberts. Juliet is a...
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Visualising Evil: Depictions of Visible Facial Difference in Film Culture
By Dr Sarah Hall At a pivotal moment in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the antagonist of the sequel...