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Welcome to New Sign on Screen Research Assistant, Charlotte Young
ANU undergraduate student and disability advocate Charlotte Young has joined the Sign on Screen team as a Research Assistant, to maintain the Film Finder sign language cinema database and help plan future events. Here, Charlotte introduces herself and her interest in sign language cinemas. When Gemma first told me about an opening for a research…
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Dr Gemma King’s ‘Sign on Screen: Language, Culture and Power in Sign Language Cinema’ receives DECRA funding
Dr Gemma King’s project ‘Sign on Screen: Language, Culture and Power in Sign Language Cinema’ is the recipient of Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC). The project aims to discover how contemporary screens represent deafness and how sign language cinema filters Deaf and non-ableist perspectives. For this project,…
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On the Rise of Sign Languages in Contemporary Film and Television
What can films and series in sign languages teach us about deafness and social power? What is the relationship between signed language and cultural identity, and how can the screen convey it in new and empowering ways? Cinema has a long history of effacing the linguistic complexity of sign, of casting hearing actors in deaf…
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Dr Gemma King awarded grant for ‘Signs on Screen: Language, Culture and Power in Sign Language Cinema’
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences would like to congratulate Dr Gemma King from the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics who has received a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) from the Australian Research Council (ARC) for her project, ‘Signs on Screen: Language, Culture and Power in Sign Language Cinema’. Read the full…
