Jennifer Cazenave

This book project investigates marginalized documentary forms that bear witness to seldom explored cultural locations of disability in cinema by emphasizing how film history is negotiated through exclusion and erasure. Specifically, it excavates a transnational film archive that moves from Nazi Germany to colonial France to post- Vietnam America—three countries that once comprised the “Eugenic Atlantic”—in order to recover visual evidence of disability from the margins of cinema. This book also analyzes the formation of communities of witnessing the disabled body across time and space, mapping both specular moments of abjection and discrimination and projects of visual rebellion and belonging.