American Sign Language Films – the First of Its Kind
Abstract
The article is devoted to the unique collection of first films showing and using sign language, made in the years 1910-1921 by the American National Association of the Deaf (NAD). After a nationwide collection of funds in 1909 a NAD Film Fund was created and the Film Commission that governed it. The author of the article places the film collection in a broader context and focuses on four films, describing their impact on contemporary deaf people, constructing the convention of filming signed narration and its meaning for today’s researchers of the deaf culture. The context of making of the films, as well as their reception and distribution mechanisms are reconstructed based on archival research conducted in the archives of Gallaudet University (Washington, USA), where the films as well as related documents are deposited.
Keywords:
sign language, American National Association of the Deaf (NAD), archives of Gallaudet UniversityReferences
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Magdalena Zdrodowskakwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Jagiellonian University Poland
Etnolog i medioznawca, adiunkt w Instytucie Sztuk Audiowizualnych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. W 2010 r. obroniła pracę doktorską poświęconą telewizji jako narzędziu komunikacji międzykulturowej (wyd. książkowe: Telewizja na pograniczach, 2013 – nagroda Rektora Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego). Zajmuje się złożonymi relacjami głuchych i technologii. Członek redakcji „Przeglądu Kulturoznawczego”, współpracuje z pismem „Ekrany”. Jako visiting researcher prowadziła badania w School of Bussiness na York University w Toronto (2011) oraz na Gallaudet University w Waszyngtonie (2014). Kompetencje badawcze podnosiła też w Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences w Kolonii (2012). W 2012 r. wraz z dr Joanną Walewską (UMK) zorganizowała szkołę letnią Media Ecologies.
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